Olancha, California
Olancha Sculpture Garden
A charming easy-to-miss sculpture garden filled with whimsical and thought-provoking metal sculptures.
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Olancha, California
A charming easy-to-miss sculpture garden filled with whimsical and thought-provoking metal sculptures.
Johannesburg, California
The liveliest ghost town in the state.
Inyo County, California
Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.
Inyo County, California
This old mining town, deep in the California desert, has a year-round population of one.
Las Vegas, Nevada
An exotic wildlife habitat right off The Strip.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.
Las Vegas, Nevada
A surreal, interdimensional shopping center and portal to another universe by Meow Wolf.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Thousands of artifacts relating to human sexuality, including the world's largest sex bike.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Las Vegas's very own 40-foot-tall fire-spewing praying mantis.
Las Vegas, Nevada
This vintage animatronics show is the Vegas version of a walk through the woods.
Alamo, Nevada
An eatery for UFO seekers on the Extraterrestrial Highway.
Boulder City, Nevada
An ode to one of the dirtiest jobs during the construction of the Boulder Dam.
Boulder City, Nevada
Experience a charming 1930s version of "infotainment."
Boulder City, Nevada
A Norwegian-born sculptor created these soaring guardian angels at the entrance to Hoover Dam.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.
Sloan, Nevada
Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.
Rachel, Nevada
This sign designates the road that leads to the infamous Area 51.
Beatty, Nevada
Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.
Beatty, Nevada
Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.
Goldfield, Nevada
Graffiti, cars, and religion combine to create this jungle of scrap in the Nevada desert.
Goldfield, Nevada
This once bustling boomtown hotel is now the hottest spot in Nevada for ghost hunters.
Boulder, Montana
This off-the-beaten-path abandoned town is a relic of Montana's silver mining boom.
Boise, Idaho
Jail from the 19th century that was built by inmates.