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Established in 1931 to house the builders of Hoover Dam, Boulder City now brims with cute shops, killer cafés, and an Art Deco aura. Fewer than 30 miles southeast (but an entire world away) from Las Vegas, this charming southern Nevada burg is a hub for history and adventure at Hoover Dam, Lake Mead National Recreation Area, the Colorado River, and beyond.

The Northeastern Nevada Museum seamlessly blends Western lore with natural history and a touch of popular culture all in one space.

Visiting the small community of Genoa, Nevada’s first permanent settlement, invokes a feeling of nostalgia. And stepping across the threshold of the Genoa Courthouse Museum takes that feeling one step further.

Class up your trip at the Historic Fourth Ward School Museum. The last surviving building of its kind promises to school you in some of the most in-depth Comstock history you’ll find in this storied Wild Western mining town.

Have a blast with the past at the Humboldt Museum, where every historic artifact comes with two things: a story and someone who loves telling it. Scope out exhibits on the area’s Western, Basque, Chinese, and American Indian cultural history history, as well as specimens like a complete wooly mammoth skeleton and fossils from a new ichthyosaur species found in the nearby Black Rock Desert.

The Clark County Museum shares the colorful history of Las Vegas and its surrounding communities with a range of interesting exhibits and interactive displays that really engage visitors.

Walk the historic grounds of the Stewart Indian School—a boarding school for American Indian children for 90 years. Listen to alumni stories on a self-guided audio tour, and visit the newly unveiled Cultural Center & Museum. 

From the desert to the ocean, from Nevada to Africa, from prehistoric times to the present, the Las Vegas Natural History Museum takes young and old alike on a learning adventure around the world.

The Punk Rock Museum invites lifelong fans and curious looky-loos of all ages to experience a hands-on, uniquely punk rock experience in Las Vegas.

There’s no better place to learn the story of Nevada’s early, lawless, silver fever era than in the Wild West town that made Tombstone and Dodge City seem tame.