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An 1870s ranch for pioneers, rodeo stars, and divorcees was abandoned and left for dead, until the city reopened it for exploration.

Formerly the world's largest, this Willy Wonka-esque contraption runs 24/7.

A giant open-air sculpture made of over 200 full-sized boats.

Tatsuo Miyajima shares a philosophical appreciation for life with the latest human technologies.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

Decades' worth of lost and forgotten objects make up the collection of this tantalizingly odd little museum.

Temporary Burning Man sculpture made of two 18-wheelers.

A unique shopping and dining park created from old shipping containers and filled with local businesses.

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

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

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

Beside a lonely road winding into the hills overlooking Altadena, sits a portal that urges callers to embrace humanity‘s innermost expression: Goodbye

A miniature train theme park, free to the public, laying at the base of the Santa Monica Mountains.

A one-of-a-kind collection of a unique medium.

An extraordinary final resting place full of oversized art, amazing statues, and dead celebrities.

Giant six-pack could provide one person a six-pack a day for 3,351 years.

This steep-walled ravine contains animal-shaped formations made from sandstone.

Over thousands of years, this slot canyon was carved out of the bed of an ancient lake.

These molds for fiberglass statues have formed an eerie, accidental sculpture park.

Relics designed to contain and conceal Yugoslavian submarines.

This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.

An extraordinary mixture of natural beauty and man-made phenomena.