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

In the middle of a busy airport, a statue honoring the astronaut who told Houston that Apollo 13 had a problem.

The largest dune field in the Mojave offers a chance of hearing the 'singing sands.'

The abandoned train depot now doubles as a well-placed rest stop for those who take the road less traveled.

The world’s largest concentrated solar plant generates as many problems as megawatts.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

A surreal, interdimensional shopping center and portal to another universe by Meow Wolf.

This Las Vegas casino boasts one of only three spiral escalators in the United States—an engineering wonder.

An overlooked monument to the celebrity gangster who helped put the sin in Sin City.

An enormous illuminated figure dances on the Las Vegas strip.

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

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

The second-largest gold nugget in existence, displayed in a Las Vegas casino conveniently named the Golden Nugget.

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.

A Norwegian-born sculptor created these soaring guardian angels at the entrance to Hoover Dam.

A futuristic rocket marks the spot where three borders meet.

Explore the complex ecology of this multifaceted nature preserve by riverboat.

The unusual burial site of a globetrotter, eccentric, adventurer, war hero, landscape designer, dandy, and writer.

A massive relic of the communist era of Berlin.

Home to 10,000 medical specimens including the remains of Rudolf Virchow's extensive collection of pathological specimens.

Berlin's oldest surviving academic architecture hosted decades of animal dissections.

Check the time in 145 countries at once with this East German relic.