The ill-fated plan to reroute the Mississippi so that Union ships could bypass Confederate fortifications on the river bend.

A free museum that memorializes the deadliest river flood in American history, and the civil engineering efforts to tame the Mississippi River.

The final resting place of the camel who served with the Confederate Army during the Civil War.

This iron and wood Civil War city-ship was the first vessel to be sunk by an electrically detonated torpedo.

This humble hole-in-the-wall is home to an incredible pig ear sandwich and serious civil rights history.

This ranch house in Jackson's Elraine neighborhood was home to the civil rights icons and the site of a shocking assassination.

Built by prisoners of war, the largest small-scale model ever built includes eight miles of tiny streams that now sit abandoned.

A preserved stretch of ancient fossilized trees with an impressive gem collection to boot.

Millions of years of erosion created the feature for which this rock formation is aptly named.

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

Much of the spectacular canyon followed over a century ago by the Los Angeles & Salt Lake railroad is now accessible to cars.

Ruins from the Parthenon and petrified wood line the interior of one of the world's most famous monuments.

This vast and otherworldly landscape is one of the largest dune complexes in North America.

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

An inconspicuous footbridge beloved by San Diego locals.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

The world's largest outdoor organ is played weekly by one of just two civic organists in the U.S.

This futuristic bridge is one of the longest self-anchored pedestrian bridges in the world.

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

A spectacular slot canyon at the northern edge of Lake Mead National Recreation Area.

The original building of a mining school endowed by one of the barons of the Comstock Lode now houses a museum of earth science and mining history.

This massive solar generating facility in the Nevada desert has been plagued by difficulties.

The sump of the landlocked Carson River is a haven for wildlife.

Though strikingly beautiful, Seattle's other railway station is now largely forgotten.