Places Shastified Wants to Go

This restaurant's marvelous musical machines include a self-playing violin.

Catch a glimpse of the elusive Peninsular bighorns right off of the desert freeway.

A porcelain company's former dumping ground, completely covered in pieces of collectible ceramics.

Everything you always wanted to know about borates is here.

A 1920s home transformed into an immersive art experience, where every room is a portal to another realm.

Experience Larry Spring's self-taught "common sense" laws of physics.

This hidden fire lookout offers spectacular views of Sequoia National Park.

This crumbling Death Valley mining complex was known for its use of giant, 20-mule team wagons.

Hidden beneath a lake for decades, this brutalist mine has now emerged from beneath the receding waters.

Where NASA's satellites and rovers phone home.

A ring of creosote bushes that are estimated to be 11,700 years old.

A massive hydrovolcanic explosion left a half-mile wide crater in Death Valley.

At this deceptively beautiful beach, nothing is what it seems.

A museum, art project, and institution that demands we look at the world around us in a strange new way.

The beauty and the beast of hydraulic mining is on full display at this California Historic State Park.

NASA's leading space science lab started by a co-founder with deep ties to the occult.

A natural dome made of volcanic glass in Inyo National Forest.

Here, visitors can swing with the waves of the Pacific Ocean.

It should come as no surprise that the world's largest artichoke lies in the town that calls itself the "Artichoke Center of the World."

Burping, gurgling geothermal mud pots by the Salton Sea.

This large collection of tiny things revels in the art of fine machinery well made.

One of the largest free-standing structures ever built, this dirigible hangar is now simply a giant skeleton.

Machinery left over from California's once thriving mercury industry now attracts artists and explorers.

This enormous World War II relic is one of the largest wooden structures in the world.