The Dalai Lama named this New Zealand landscape the "Spiritual Center of the Universe."

These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.

One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.

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

Back in 1952, you could get a mushroom cloud chaser with your atomic cocktail.

Las Vegas's very own 40-foot-tall fire-spewing praying mantis.

“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.

The neon signs from Las Vegas' past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

Improbably, the largest wildlife refuge in the conterminous 48 states sits just northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada.

Nevada's largest cactus collection stands outside a candy mogul's small factory.

An enormous illuminated figure dances on the Las Vegas strip.

Formerly the world's largest, this Willy Wonka-esque contraption runs 24/7.

The air force base preserves its scars from the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Doris Duke's lasting collection of Islamic Art, hidden in a Hawaiian paradise.

The memorial honors the lives of rhinoceroses killed by poachers.

This raised bulls-eye visible from space was the subject of an intense geologic controversy.

Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.

The fifth-longest natural arch in the world, and the longest outside China.

This Moab institution functions as both a rock store and a small natural history museum.

San Franciscans leave gifts and messages for the magical beings that live behind the tiny, mysterious door installed on a tree in Golden Gate Park.

From horses to stainless-steel trucks, this iconic Providence burger wagon is one of the oldest mobile diners in the country.

To avoid the demolition costs this abandoned drawbridge was simply left in the up position.

This 3,500 pound obelisk was constructed with more than 1,000 reclaimed guns.