If your travel plans this holiday season take you to McCarran International Airport, you'll have the opportunity to visit the Howard W. Cannon Aviation Museum. It's likely that nearly everyone reading this already has been to museum, but it's also just as likely that the vast majority didn't realize it. This is because although the museum is, according to director Mark Hall-Patton, Nevada's most visited museum, it also is one of the least accessible, with exhibits located inside three valley airports.

The museum is spread out across McCarran -- situated above the baggage claim, in the corridors to various gates, across from the ticket counters, and even in Terminal 2. It's the museum's location in the state's busiest airport that qualifies it as perhaps the most visited museum in the valley. Ironically, it's also this very location that makes it so difficult to see in its entirety.