Places rubysage Wants to Go

“Live hard, ride fast, eat pizza” at this joint filled with Evel Knievel memorabilia.

A piece of the iconic wall found an unlikely new home in a Vegas bathroom.

Las Vegas's very own 40-foot-tall fire-spewing praying mantis.

Graffiti, cars, and religion combine to create this jungle of scrap in the Nevada desert.

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.

Preserving the remains of Native American cultures which otherwise would have been submerged behind Hoover Dam.

An exotic wildlife habitat right off The Strip.

The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.

Nevada's largest cactus collection stands outside a candy mogul's small factory.

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.

This institution collects the history of burlesque dancing with a titillating collection of ephemera and pasties.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

Underneath downtown Lincoln resides a network of caves that was also the city's first brewery.

Otherworldly rock formations and ancient fossils abound in this unique stretch of Nebraska badlands.

A memorial to the most decisive Native American victory of the Plains Indian War.

Multiple monuments to a grizzled old mutt that survived the landscape of Butte's treacherous Berkeley Pit.

This landmark church at the Flathead Reservation mission features 58 ceiling and wall frescoes painted by the mission's cook.

A colossal concrete penguin announces this Montana town as the coldest spot in America. But is it really?

A classic carnival ride that was carved to be untouchable.

After Havre burned down, the best place to build was under the ashes.