The 25 Best Roadside Attractions in Nevada
Ranked by Roadtrippi users — the people who've actually been there. Updated June 2026. Roadtrippi catalogs 299 roadside attractions in Nevada.
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1. Seven Magic Mountains
Jean, NV — ★ 5.0 (2 reviews)
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2. International Car Forest of the Last Church
Goldfield, NV — ★ 5.0 (2 reviews)
Over 40 cars, trucks, vans, and buses have been buried nose-down, or stacked atop each other, along a dirt road in the desert. Created by Mark Rippie and Chad Sorg in 2002. It's art.
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3. Giant Rock Pick Ax
Tonopah, NV
Large miner's pick axe is a business eyecatcher for a brewery's tap room - "The Pick of Nevada."
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4. Spider Bug: VW Beetle Mega-Insect
Sparks, NV
A six-legged terror with the body of an old-style VW bug. Disappeared in Oct. 2009, reappeared Feb. 2015, returned to its rooftop perch April 2015.
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5. Mannequin Factory and Showroom: Buy Dummies
Las Vegas, NV
Its owner claims that this is the only showroom dummy factory in America. Open to the public; check out the showrooms, buy a whole mannequin or just a head or a limb. You can also opt for a dummy custom-made to order.
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6. Giant Furry Rabbit
Las Vegas, NV
Fuzzy mega-bunny sits inside an animal rescue "Rabbitat." No climbing allowed on the cute bunny.
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7. Lion Habitat Ranch
Henderson, NV
What happened to all those lions that used to live inside the MGM Grand Hotel-Casino in Las Vegas? They moved to a nearby desert preserve. 40 retired on nine acres.
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8. Bonnie and Clyde's Death Car
Primm, NV
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9. Retro Rocket
Reno, NV
A shiny chrome, Flash-Gordon-style rocket ship, created by artist Clayton Blake. It's a 2023 castoff from Burning Man.
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10. Memorial to Hoover Dam Dead (In Transition)
Boulder City, NV
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11. McGill Drugstore Museum
McGill, NV
Drugstore closed in 1983, and everything that was on the shelves is still there. Now it's a museum.
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12. Abandoned Towering Ovens of Ward
Ely, NV
Built to make charcoal for iron smelters. The smelters are gone, even the town is gone. The ovens remain.
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13. Lehman Caves
Baker, NV
Commercial caves until 1922, now part of Great Basin National Park. Kept natural nowadays -- large rooms filled with stalactites and stalagmites -- but you can still see hundreds of sets of smudged, black tourist initials.
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14. Time Zone Motel
Reno, NV
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15. Bottle House
Goldfield, NV
At one time it was convenient -- even fashionable -- to construct your desert dwelling with walls of discarded bottles glued together with a mixture of adobe and straw. This bottle house dates from 1905.
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16. Michael Jackson Statue (Gone)
Las Vegas, NV
Prop used in Jackson's 1994 HIStory Tour. The 10-foot tall gray statue, lit from below, stood on a 10-foot-tall pedestal and made the King of Pop look like a pagan idol. Removed for summer, supposedly, but maybe a controversy scrub.
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17. Alien Research Center
Hiko, NV
Outside, a 35-foot-tall bug-eyed alien named "Fred" invites curious probing of UFO activity within (It's a gift shop that sells alien tequila, among other otherworldly things).
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18. Buckaroo Hall of Fame
Winnemucca, NV
A "buckaroo" is what cowboys like to be called in this part of the West. Also here: a museum of sheep and goats.
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19. Dam High Scaler Monument
Boulder City, NV
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20. Office of Collecting and Design
Las Vegas, NV
In a shopping plaza, a small museum is filled with misplaced, broken, and obsolete objects, include animal figurines with missing legs, foreign gum, tiny spoons, and bird feet.
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21. Hollywood Cars Museum
Las Vegas, NV
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22. Animal Ark: Casino Cast-Offs
Red Rock, NV
A refuge for wild animals that have been abandoned by idiot owners. Bears, foxes, raccoons, white tigers, lynx, bobcats, etc.
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23. Carpeteria Genie
Reno, NV
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24. Extraterrestrial Highway Sign
Crystal Springs, NV
Way out in the middle of the Nevada desert, the well-visited "Exterestrial Highway" sign is almost entirely covered with stickers and magnets. Highway was given its name on April 18, 1996.
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25. Laughlin Labyrinths
Laughlin, NV
Someone took the time to arrange rocks in the sand into five geometric "labyrinths," which are like mazes except that you can just step over the rocks and cheat whenever you want. But you're really just cheating yourself.
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