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Key West, Florida

Key West High Heel Shoe Drop

Leave it to Key West to drop a real-live drag queen instead of a ball to mark the arrival of the New Year.
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Key West, Florida

Truman's Little White House

A historic presidential getaway on the continental United States' southernmost island.
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Key West, Florida

Key West Cemetery

The island residents are known for taking their quirky sense of humor with them to the grave.
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Miami, Florida

Mary Brickell Park & Mausoleum

Amid the hustle and bustle of Miami’s Financial District sits a mausoleum-turned-monument.
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Miami, Florida

The Vagabond Hotel

This post-war motel embodies a little-known, Miami-born architectural style.
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Miami, Florida

Miami City Cemetery

Neglected resting place of some of the city's early luminaries—and a woman encased in concrete.
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Miami, Florida

Ferdinand Magellan Presidential Railcar

With nickel-steel armor and three-inch thick bullet resistant windows, FDR's train was a rolling fortress.
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Key Biscayne, Florida

Crandon Park Zoo Ruins

It turns out that a hurricane-prone beach is probably not the best place to house wild animals.
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Miami Beach, Florida

The Wolfsonian-FIU

Over 120,000 curious objects that have shaped our modern world.
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Las Vegas, Nevada

Ice Age Fossils State Park

Pleistocene megafauna fossils are the subject of Nevada's newest state park at the northern edge of the Las Vegas metropolitan area.
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Las Vegas, Nevada

Hollywood Cars Museum and Liberace Garage

The most extravagant car collection features a Batmobile, Liberace's mirror ball-ed Rolls Royce, and a stunt car from 'The Fast and the Furious.'
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Las Vegas, Nevada

Tupac Shakur Memorial

Fans have made a utility pole near where the 90s musician was shot into an ersatz memorial.
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Las Vegas, Nevada

Hidden Forest Trail

A spring and an enigmatic cabin lie in a ponderosa pine forest in the heart of the Desert National Wildlife Refuge.
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Las Vegas, Nevada

Italian American Club Restaurant

This supper club is a slice of old Las Vegas.
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Las Vegas, Nevada

Golden Tiki

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

Las Vegas Strip Benchmarks

These markers are used to determine the ground stability of the Strip.
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Las Vegas, Nevada

Secret Pizza

A tiny slice shop hides down an unmarked hallway in a Las Vegas casino.
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Las Vegas, Nevada

Slot Car City

A blast of nostalgia awaits visitors to this miniature indoor raceway.
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Las Vegas, Nevada

Tule Springs Fossil Beds

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

Statue of Elvis Presley

A homage to the King at the hotel where he revived his career.
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Las Vegas, Nevada

Bugsy Siegel Monument

An overlooked monument to the celebrity gangster who helped put the sin in Sin City.
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Las Vegas, Nevada

Underground House

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

'Bliss Dance'

An enormous illuminated figure dances on the Las Vegas strip.
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Las Vegas, Nevada

Hand of Faith Gold Nugget

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