Places Shastified Wants to Go

A striking, menacing sandstone peak towering above a landscape that's equal parts Mordor and the Moon.

A Mars simulation in the southern Utah desert.

Despite its name, this route in southern Utah offers a heavenly day trip.

Once a menacing challenge for trailblazers, this trail is now the most scenic drive in Utah.

A sculpture for the sun and stars, created by Nancy Holt.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.

Sandstone rock formations that look like they belong on the cover of a progressive rock album.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

An early 20th-century fruit warehouse home of an artistic and cultural renaissance in northeastern Washington.

A normal, unassuming pedestrian overpass has been the demise of many, many trucks.

Not far from Mount Rainer, an iron wonderland claims the landscape.

A rare tour of a commercial jet assembly plant, held inside one of the largest buildings in the world.

This contemporary art museum is filled with other, smaller museums, which feature work from artists primarily in the Pacific Northwest.

Quirky movable sculptures have been racing through the town since 1983.

Stones speckled along Harris Avenue reveal hidden nuggets of the past.

This bridge provides safe passage for squirrels.

The world's largest egg has been cracked a number of times over the years but has been repeatedly replaced.

Inside this curiosity shop, visitors can peruse the clown collection or purchase a molar from the mouth of Bigfoot.

This three-story antique market and curiosity emporium claims to be "the largest singly owned antique shop in the Pacific Northwest."

"Enter and be entertained or annoyed by Dada in Walla Walla."