Las Vegas Attractions For Thrill Seekers
Summer in Las Vegas is in full swing. And if you’re a local like me, you are trying to find a hotel pool to hang out in with a drink of choice all the while dodging the electric bill. However, if you are a thrill seeker (while also looking to avoid spending money on that AC bill) then believe it or not, there are Las Vegas attractions for you.
Las Vegas Attractions: More Thrill than Risk
Take Exotics Racing For instance. If you are a car fan and a fan of speed then this place has everything. Enjoy things like go karts and off-road experiences like The dirt track experience. This is where you get to fly in the air in a Baja-style truck on the back roads of Las Vegas.
Adrenaline junkies line up for that adventure. Plus, they have drifting experiences and just flat-out racing opportunities for some bad ass supercars like a Ferrari, Lambo or an Aston Martin. I mean, If you’re down for speed and flying around in a sweet cars, exotics racing is the spot.
Or maybe you always wanted to sky dive. But, jumping from an airplane is the last thing on your list of things to do today or ever. Well, no worries. Out of all the Las Vegas attractions, Vegas Indoor Skydive has got you covered. Defy gravity by yourself or with friends and family. The whole experience, minus the plane, parachutes and dying, is available at Vegas Indoor Skydive.
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If flying around in the air or even in a car isn’t your jam. But, the idea of riding around in a bulldozer gets you all fired up then Dig This is for you. Las Vegas attractions weren’t typically known to include digging in the dirt, but not anymore. This place is a huge construction playground with excavators and all. Kids, family, lone wolf, whatever, you are invited to come dig this. Throw a birthday in the dirt if that’s your thing. With all the construction in Las Vegas, it’s no wonder we haven’t had Dig This sooner.
Bottom line, Las Vegas is so much more than gambling and drinking. Yes, the cocktails flow and you can risk it all on the craps table, but you can also find a thrill for all.
The Poop Museum And 6 Weird Nevada Attractions You Must Visit
1. The Clown Motel: Tonopah, Nevada
The Clown Motel is just plain weird. And it is said to be haunted – which is not hard to believe. I have been to it, but refuse to stay, because it is like something out of the X-Files the Scully and Mulder would have even avoided, But it is quite the tourist attraction. At least check out the weird gift shop.
2. The Middlegate Shoe Tree: Dayton, Nevada
It’s a tree with a bunch of shoes hanging over branches. The story is that a couple got in their first fight as newlyweds, they had an argument right near the tree, and one left the other walking home, without shoes. They patched things up, but made an anniversary tradition out of going back each year to throw a shoe on the tree. It’s interesting. In Dayton, Nevada, about 50 miles from Fallon Nevada, on The Loneliest Road In America.
3. The Car Forest: Goldfield, Nevada
The call it the Free Range Art Gallery. There are dozens of cars, vans, and trucks half-buried, or sticking straight up out of the ground, and even on top of each other. These are the canvas, and they are really colorful, and festive. It’s a really cool sight to see, in the living ghost town of Goldfield.
4. Seven Magic Mountains: Las Vegas, Nevada
The Seven Magic Mountains were supposed to be a temporary exhibit, but they have been up since 2016. About 20 minutes outside of Las Vegas are seven fluorescent colored, 11 story rock towers. They have become a bit of have become something of a cult classic, and they are a GREAT photo op. A really cool sight to see!
5. The National Atomic Testing Museum: Las Vegas, Nevada
There were over 900 atomic tests in Nevada. And people would take buses to see the testing. It was a huge draw for Las Vegas, and people came in from everywhere. People would bus out to the test site, put their goggles on, have a cocktail, and enjoy watching the mushroom clouds in the sky. It was quite the attraction on Las Vegas in the 50’s. The Atomic Testing Museum, though, is quite amazing, and full of history. A huge, actual, nuclear reactor, a backpack nuke, and personal atomic weapons. Yikes! But the Oppenheimer era was fierce in Las Vegas.
6. Little A’Le’Inn: Rachel, Nevada
The Little A’Le’Inn is just as kitschy as you would imagine! You can stay there, eat there, and shop. All a play on the Area 51 test site, that is not too far down the road. And all part of the heyday of the Las Vegas atomice times. Do NOT try to trek on over to Area 51, and think you’ll get past anything. Lights go on, and guards swarm in from nowhere! Just keep close to the Inn.
