A retired schoolteacher in suburban Nevada transformed his front yard into a paleontological menagerie.

The best Tiki bar in Las Vegas.

Decades' worth of lost and forgotten objects make up the collection of this tantalizingly odd little museum.

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

A luxurious doomsday bunker hidden beneath an unassuming Las Vegas home offers the best of subterranean suburbia.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

An exotic wildlife habitat right off The Strip.

Keen eyes can find the Disney influences throughout this treasure trove of a tiki bar.

A house built from trash known as the poor man's Hearst Castle.

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

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

This incredible collection of vintage pinball machines can be played at 25 cents a pop.

Cambria's most unique B&B features creative surroundings and fantastic food.

This desert oddity hides in plain sight thanks to a cartographic error and a desert explorer with a punny sense of humor.

At the base of the Spring Mountains, a unique nursery packed with desert plants.

A series of labyrinths in the Nevada desert inspire meditation and calmness.

A hard-to-reach oasis in a desolate corner of Death Valley National Park.

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.

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

Two geoglyphs that are truly unique to North America.

Water of undetermined depth has attracted rare fish and cult leaders alike.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

The ruins of the castle that chemicals built.