Places shatomica Wants to Go

This supper club is a slice of old Las Vegas.

Explore the flooded remains of a limestone mine in Kentucky.

A family-owned store specializing in minerals, geodes, gemstones, and more.

This former mining town was named the most toxic town in America.

At this Austin dive bar, it's been Christmas every day for more than 50 years.

One of El Paso's oldest dives may have inspired the classic Marty Robbins song.

This Choctaw/Thai restaurant celebrates Indigenous cuisines from different continents.

One of three remaining theatres in the United States created in the Art Deco Mayan Revival style.

A lingering bit of Space Race nostalgia lies in the middle of the desert.

A quirky mishmash of Route 66 memorabilia and other throwbacks from the past.

Though it's no longer a functioning train depot, this castle-like structure is an important piece of Oklahoma history.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

This unique landscape is the only place in the world to dig for hourglass-selenite crystals.

This oversized flute-playing Ancestral Puebloan deity is also a landmark of Southwestern kitsch.

Secluded springs in the Rio Grande Gorge offer hot bathing beside the haunted ruins of a stagecoach stop.

Crystal hunters can dig for their own stones at this DIY mine in Arkansas’ quartz belt.

The original building of a mining school endowed by one of the barons of the Comstock Lode now houses a museum of earth science and mining history.

Experience life in one of America’s smallest neighborhoods.

A group of college students hauled a desk up a mountain more than 40 years ago. The notebooks inside have become a makeshift time capsule.

This 47-foot chile pepper sculpture welcomes Scoville heat unit obsessed tourists to the Big Chile Inn.

The entire history of the U.S. Space Shuttle Program is painted on an enormous roadside water tank.

The ruins of the northernmost pueblo in the Americas tell the story of a mixing of native cultures.

A permanent outdoor art installation made up of more than 100 mushroom-shaped lights.

A small shop filled with history, mystery, folklore, and more.