Places Shastified Wants to Go

Graffiti, cars, and religion combine to create this jungle of scrap in the Nevada desert.

A new kind of theme park for adults off the Las Vegas Strip.

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

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

This incredible collection of vintage pinball machines can be played at 25 cents a pop.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

These tall, red sandstone pinnacles outside Moab are often forgotten amid their more famous neighbors.

Only ruined buildings and abandoned charcoal kilns remain of this once bustling Wild West boom town.

If it wasn’t for an innovative use of quilts during a crisis, the city of Panguitch might not exist today.

At this gas station in the middle of the desert, a convenience store has been carved directly into the rock.

The last SR-71 ever constructed.

Kay Andrews's recipe was so good, her family immortalized it in stone.

This roadside stop between Goblin Valley and the Henry Mountains is the perfect location to view some of the region's natural wonders.

A cemetery full of touching tombstones from a community of railroad workers, uranium miners, and Cold War missile launchers.

A museum in rural Utah documents the history of the Japanese Americans who were forcibly relocated there.

Largest man-made excavation on earth!

This set of three large, volcanic hot springs is a favorite haunt for intrepid divers.

The remains of this early 20th century refinery loom on a mountainside like a graffiti-covered fortress.

Eat burgers beneath gargantuan taxidermy and thousands of dollar bills in Utah's oldest continuously-operating bar.

Incredible sculptures inspired by obscure passages from the Bible.