One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

Founded in 1933, this creamery has produced world-class cheeses and was the first American creamery to win a world champion title at the World Cheese Awards.

A public fountain that spouts "health water" from a nearby spring.

Shakespeare has been brought to life in this open air theater for the better part of a century.

This hiking/biking/horse trail along an old railroad grade features trestles, tunnels, and a roadless stretch through the scenic Susan River canyon.

A breathtaking 19th-century trail overlooks Lake Tahoe.

The museum is housed inside the historic 1863 Carson City Mint.

The first project by the Bureau of Reclamation illustrates both the upsides and downsides of reclamation.

Red ocher pictographs survive in this tufa rock shelter on the shore of an ancient lake.

A tree bears footwear on the loneliest road in America.

This Old West eatery along America's Loneliest Road was originally a stop on the Pony Express.

This beloved roadside attraction welcomes visitors with his signature neon smile.

The original building of a mining school endowed by one of the barons of the Comstock Lode now houses a museum of earth science and mining history.

This former New Jersey bus now exists as a public art exhibit.

An iconic 1960s theater with a Buckminster Fuller-style geodesic dome.

This 18-foot-tall steel lotus is a meditation on ecological crisis that originally appeared at Burning Man.

What began as a prominent Burning Man art piece is now an iconic symbol of downtown Reno.

A concrete arrow from a 1920s network of airmail beacons is still preserved at the western edge of suburban Reno.

The arch that celebrated the completion of the Lincoln and Victory highways.

This wilderness hike to a waterfall has an unlikely beginning in suburban Reno.

Bill Murray bowled three straight strikes here at Reno's "Taj Mahal of Tenpins."

The only surviving prototype of Buckminster Fuller's revolutionary car.

This mother-daughter run curiosities shop is a beautifully odd mix of taxidermy and exotic plants.

An eccentric millionaire's personal curio collection includes at least one shrunken head.