Places Shastified Wants to Go

This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

The largest drain hole in the world.

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

The final resting place of a space program monolith, soon to be unveiled again to the public.

This rare example of a "tidefall" is a spectacular drop from the cliffs down onto the beach.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

Eons old volcanic activity created one of the most stunning rock formations in the United States.

Trails through lava-carved tube-caves display sparkling bacteria and a rich history.

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

The only theatre in the world constructed specifically for sound movement.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.