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The Wonder Road aka Doobie Lane, a mile-long strip of dirt road filled with folk art
Guru Road is a curious monument of quirky aphorisms and folk art installations built by DeWayne "Doobie" Williams between 1978 and 1992.
This mile-long strip of dirt road can be found 2 miles... »
Unusual Monuments | Edited by Metric and Dylan
A tree bears footwear on the loneliest road in America
Near the one-horse town of Middlegate, Nevada, on US Highway 50, the so-called "Loneliest Road in America," set against a backdrop of barren, arid desert and mountains, grows a lone cottonwood... »
Unusual Monuments | Edited by Henry and Dylan
A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure
This alien looking geyser on the edge of Black Rock Desert is actually man made. Man made by accident, that is.
There are actually two geysers on the property. The first was created nearly... »
Martian Landscapes, Geological Oddities, Disaster Areas | Edited by Tre and Dylan
Historic graveyard set against the barren Virginia City hills
Virginia City, home of Comstock Lode, the United States' first major discovery of a silver ore deposit in 1859, is also home to several captivating cemeteries.
Located side by side over many... »
Catacombs, Crypts, & Cemeteries | Edited by Kalia_K and Josh
1885; beautiful unusual architecture
The Ingomar Club house is a beautiful building built by the Newsom brothers of San Francisco. Photos are available at the web site.
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Architectural Oddities | Edited by
The neon-lit night sky of Las Vegas is one of the iconic sights of the 20th century. It is the peculiar mix of the burlesque, kitsch, and retro modern that has marked the visual identity of an... »
Unique Collections | Edited by stanestane, Annetta and others
Potential storage site of the nation’s high level nuclear waste for the next ten thousand years and beyond
Yucca Mountain in southern Nevada is more a ridge than a mountain. Created by an extinct supervolcano, it slowly rises from a height of four thousand feet to six thousand feet along its’ length of... »
Instruments of Science, Long Now Locations, Subterranean Sites | Edited by LongNow
Turtle sanctuary with a fascinating backstory
Founded in 1995, Orton “Brother” King has dedicated his life to safely releasing Hawksbill turtle hatchlings into the nearby waters.
Raising the turtles from eggs deposited on nearby beaches,... »
Natural Wonders, Fascinating Fauna, Natural History | Edited by re_nakaba
The self-made house sculpture of an outsider artist who proclaimed himself "Chief Rolling Thunder"
Frank Van Zant led a fascinating and complex life and left a unique home in Nevada. Though he had a Dutch name, in his later life he was more commonly went by Chief Rolling Thunder and was 100%... »
Eccentric Homes | Edited by julib82, M Rebekah Otto and others
One of the largest sculptures ever created
At eighty feet high, a quarter of a mile wide, and one and a quarter miles long, the sculpture City is roughly the scale of the national mall in Washington, D.C., making the artwork, located in... »
Strange Statues | Edited by Moe Cheezmo, Dylan and others
