Places Shastified Wants to Go

An arsenic-filled pool in the Grand Canyon takes on the appearance of a giant, overflowing pumpkin.

Eons ago, a rushing lava river formed this pristine passage through solid rock.

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

In a 345-million-year-old cave that's 200 feet underground, dinner awaits.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

Large tower used for simulating radiation of Hiroshima bomb and the tallest object ever relocated.

An abandoned cyanide mill is now a haunting magnet for graffiti and illegal parties.

These markers are used to document elevation changes around the famed dam.

A luxurious doomsday bunker hidden beneath an unassuming Las Vegas home offers the best of subterranean suburbia.

A facility built in 1992 for an underground nuclear test remains in place today.

The strongest earthquake in Nevada's recorded history left these spectacular breaks along the west front of a range in central Nevada.

Equipment used to mine silver and lead has been preserved in this almost-ghost town in northern Nye County.

A deep toxic lake fills this abandoned open-pit copper mine, now a Superfund site.

The precious-metals strikes dating back to the 1860s are now mostly inactive, but this area has become the United States' only domestic source of lithium.

An abandoned mine serves as a stark memorial of when mercury was a valued strategic metal.

The only thing still moving in this town is the eponymous hot spring.

A surviving concrete arrow from a 1920s navigational network is preserved right off a modern freeway.

On October 26, 1963, a 12-kiloton nuclear device was detonated here in granite some 1,211 feet below the ground surface.

A little-known occurrence of fossil wood in northern Washoe County, Nevada, near the Black Rock Desert.

See Hoover Dam and the bypass bridge from a perspective usually off-limits to the public, and float the upper part of the Black Canyon National Water Trail.

These markers are used to determine the ground stability of the Strip.

Drive up a paved road into "Nevada's Yosemite" for exquisite views and mountain hiking in an alpine setting.