Winnemucca, Nevada
Humboldt Museum
Local history museum with mammoth bones and an old myth about local giants
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Winnemucca, Nevada
Local history museum with mammoth bones and an old myth about local giants
Baker, Nevada
This crumbling stump is all that remains of what was once thought to be the oldest living organism.
Austin, Nevada
This central Nevada cave is the spiritual home of ancient and enigmatic pictographs.
Fallon, Nevada
This cave was hidden for thousands of years, storing the worldly goods of ancient Native Americans.
Nye, Nevada
Potential high level nuclear waste storage site for the next 10,000 years and beyond.
Alamo, Nevada
If you want to take a peek at Area 51, this is legally as close as you're going to get.
Baker, Nevada
The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.
Gerlach, Nevada
A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.
Roatán, Honduras
This collection of historical artifacts and tropical wildlife waits just beneath the surface of the water.
Guatemala City, Guatemala
An impressive century-old, to-scale topographical map of Guatemala.
Tikal, Guatemala
The remnants of an archaeological camp stand within Tikal National Park.
Guatemala City, Guatemala
An enormous, 30-story-deep hole in the middle of Guatemala City.
Zarcero, Costa Rica
This Costa Rican topiary park is a surreal garden of unearthly delights.
Costa Rica
Disused penal colony features prisoner artwork, some sketched in human blood.
Cahuita, Costa Rica
Sloth rehabilitation center in the jungle of Costa Rica.
Dump, Belize
A devastated ruin in the south of Belize where British explorers claimed to unearth the Mitchell-Hedges Crystal Skull.
Belize
Sparkling, calcite-covered skeletons of children who may have been sacrificed to appease an angry god.
St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands
A sharply wedged sundial marks the point at which each day in the United States begins.
Leeward Settlement, Turks and Caicos Islands
Uninhabited islet in the Caribbean is the sanctuary of giant lizards.
Trinidad and Tobago
The site of a devastating modern-day mud volcano eruption that buried parts of a village.
New Jersey, Trinidad and Tobago
This peculiar lake of pitch is so thick and viscous that one can walk on its surface.
La Pompe, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
This century old flensing port is a remnant of a culture for whom whaling is still legal.
Jayuya, Puerto Rico
This niche museum devoted to ancient religious artifacts is shaped like the very thing it displays.
Port Royal, Jamaica
Nature took her revenge on the "Wickedest City in the World."