Places mwshook Wants to Go

The colorful, smiling concrete silos of Vancouver.

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

Back in 1952, you could get a mushroom cloud chaser with your atomic cocktail.

This former lieutenant governor's home is brimming with curiosities.

The second-largest gold nugget in existence, displayed in a Las Vegas casino conveniently named the Golden Nugget.

Gigantic private toy museum featuring among finest collections of antique mechanical banks in existence.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

There's a 12-foot-tall replica of the Washington Monument hidden under a manhole nearby.

The "world's smallest volcano" has been used to store meals and dispose of dead bodies.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.