Places Shastified Wants to Go

A classically trained chef makes beloved burritos inside a gas station.

This corn maze so big you may want to pack a lunch, and possibly a flaregun.

340 bicycles, 65 feet high.

Abandoned anti-ballistic missile base.

Finally the worlds of UFO enthusiasts and beef jerky lovers have come together in this roadside shop.

Thousands of migrating monarchs overwinter clustered amongst the eucalyptus trees.

A working model of the entire San Francisco Bay and much of the Sacramento River Delta, complete with regular tides that change every 14 minutes.

Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.

A UFO scrapyard in the California desert.

Once America’s most beautiful army base, this abandoned military fort on the coast of Monterey Bay has been left to the elements.

A dwindling menagerie of anthropomorphic oil derrick animals still dot the barren California landscape.

A Cold War site complete with rusty structures, hiking trails, and beautiful views.

Hidden in the back of a disused small town hotel is a dive bar shellacked with over a million pennies.

Radioactivity still cause for concern at this urban explorer's paradise.

This sculpture garden in Death Valley makes you feel like you've slipped into some alternate reality.

The most isolated mailbox in America lets desert travelers record their passing.

Celebrating the transformation of trash into objects of beauty.

The world's largest wooden trestle stretches across this desert canyon in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.

360-degree virtual reality chamber physically immerses scientists into their data.

The rusting remains of the largest assembled WWII fleet on the West Coast.

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

The largest dune field in the Mojave offers a chance of hearing the 'singing sands.'

A grove of "candelabra redwoods" deep in California's Lost Coast.

At this California chicken ranch, four bucks will get you 18 eggs and a chorus of dancing animatronic poultry.