Nestled between a college and a golf course, the garden is home to more than 2,500 rhododendrons.

A young botanist's horticultural vision realized through a lifetime of planting, tending, and collecting seeds.

Allowing humans and fish alike to migrate from freshwater to saltwater and back again.

A pop-culture attraction outside of Dyersville, Iowa, hits a home run.

A memorial to the nearly 10,000 American soldiers laid to rest on the beaches of Normandy during WWII.

A daring D-Day assault by U.S. Army Rangers is commemorated atop the high cliffs of this strategic point.

An unprepossessing storage reservoir in southern Utah has a checkered past.

Named after an outlaw who used the basin as a hideout.

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.

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

The best Tiki bar in Las Vegas.

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

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

There's nothing creepier than a cemetery next to a clown motel.

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

The largest man-made crater in the U.S. marks the spot where we once tested mining with nukes.

This arid landscape was once a lush wetland. Today, it's a paleontological site filled with fossilized mammoths, sabertooth cats, and more.

Now a city park, this site started as a stage stop, then was a working ranch, and finally became a dude ranch that specialized in letting wannabe divorcees establish Nevada residency.

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

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

The only mine for rare earth elements in the United States has been intermittently active since the 1950s.

A collection of anti-communist sculptures stands watch in the Mojave Desert.

Abandoned Air Force base that has fallen into disrepair.