Places Shastified Wants to Go

Mine your own precious stones.

The world's first nuclear power plant is open to visitors looking to role-play a meltdown.

New fungal and bacterial species call this deadly lake home.

A sprawling museum located on the former site of the Orphan Girl Mine.

At the base of Steens Mountain resides an otherworldly desert.

This lake in the Cascades lives up to its name, disappearing down a hole every spring.

A stunning landscape of bunkers that once stored chemical weapons.

Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.

Tiny horses tethered to antique rings are scattered around the city.

A sacred lake composed of over 300 separate pools of highly concentrated minerals.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

The strange phenomenon causing gravity to "work backwards" on this hill has been blamed on the paranormal.

The longest continuous lava tube in the continental U.S. offers 2.5 miles of dark explorations for the adventurous.

From mining complex to industrial exhibition, this museum once played a major part in the X-Files.

This hauntingly stark structure is a relic of an industrial past.

Railways may have forged this quintet of lovely tunnels, but now they are open to hikers.

Defying all odds, this lonely little tree found a home on a log sticking out of a Canadian lake.

The century-old plant starred as the villainous clown's lair in the miniseries based on Stephen King's "It."

This quirky piece of naval artillery has been deafening Canadians for over a century.

This Art Deco masterpiece has stood in for some of the most famous buildings in comic book history.

A renegade art installation in a small Vancouver park is now officially sanctioned by the City Parks Department.

This grove of ghostly cedars was killed in 1700 by an enormous tsunami, felt from the United States to Japan.

This large Sitka spruce that appears to be floating in mid-air, has defied logic for years.

One artist's yard is full of shining, whirling kinetic sculptures that look like pure steel psychedelia.