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Amargosa Valley, Nevada

Big Bovine of the Desert

This enormous fiberglass cow near Death Valley National Park once graced a casino roof in Las Vegas.
Hat Creek, California

Hat Creek Radio Observatory

The first radio telescope dedicated to the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.
Fort Mohave, Arizona

Fort Mojave Twins

Two geoglyphs that are truly unique to North America.
Searchlight, Nevada

Walking Box Ranch

Formerly frequented by Hollywood stars and now open for tours.
Tecopa, California

China Ranch Date Farm

This secluded date farm can be reached only by following a bumpy, single-lane desert road.
Goffs, California

Goffs Schoolhouse Museum

Built as a schoolhouse in 1914, this Mission-style building has also served as a dancehall, a library, an Army canteen, and now a cultural museum.
North Bonneville, Washington

Bonneville Lock & Dam

Boats and fish both find their way through this massive hydroelectric structure.
Hagerman, Idaho

Hagerman Fossil Beds

An ordinary rancher stumbled upon one of the world’s largest collections of Pliocene horse fossils.
Mountain Pass, California

Mountain Pass Mine

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

Subway Cave

A large lava tube that can be walked through with no special equipment.
Tukwila, Washington

The Museum of Flight

An extraordinary collection of aircraft and spacecraft on display at the original site of the Boeing Company.
Glenns Ferry, Idaho

Three Island Crossing State Park

At the site of the most dangerous crossings on the Oregon Trail, a museum explores the complex history of westward migration in America.
Lux, Nevada

Thompson Smelter

These massive concrete foundations and smelter chimney bricks still smell like smoke after a century.
Cawston, British Columbia

Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory

One of Canada's premier radio observatories sits in a radio-quiet valley outside Penticton.
Bend, Oregon

Tumalo Dam

The ruins of a failed dam that was built over land later described as a "sponge."
Sunshine Valley, British Columbia

Hope Slide

The morning of January 9, 1965, over 46 million cubic meters of earth, rock, and snow broke free, obliterating a section of the highway below.
Mound House, Nevada

VW Beetle Spider

On the side of Highway 50 East, between Carson City and Dayton, Nevada, sits a giant metal spider made from a vintage Volkswagen Beetle.
Richland, Washington

Hanford Site

Nuclear reactor created the plutonium used on Nagasaki.
Richland, Washington

B Reactor

A 1940s nuclear reactor built to produce plutonium for the Manhattan Project.
Mesquite, Nevada

Davidson Family Gravesite

The remote graves of a Scottish family who died of thirst while attempting to reach St. George.
Mullan, Idaho

Hiawatha Trail

Cross the Continental Divide through an old railroad tunnel, and ride back to the top on a shuttle.
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.
Fallon, Nevada

Helicopter Crash Memorial

Unopened beer cans are left at this monument to honor the Navy men who lost their lives during a training mission.
Columbus, Nevada

Candelaria

This silver-mining camp has been active intermittently from the 1860s to the present.