Places Shawb1 Wants to Go

A small Wyoming town is home to the state's oldest-operating soda fountain.

One of few vertical lava tubes in the world accessible by foot.

A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

Every winter, dozens of otherworldly ice structures sprout up from a rigged up artesian well.

This once-popular otherworldly landscape was formed by one of the largest volcanic eruptions in history.

Despite its location in the English countryside, this chapel is the property of Ontario, Canada.

An abandoned relic of the city's failed experiment with below ground transit.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

Four-story concrete hotel never opened to customers.

This hollowed salt dome is the largest oil storage facility in the world, hoarding 250 million barrels of crude oil.

The southernmost postal office in South America.

The rusty hull of this 1899 ship serves as a tribute to explorers of the bottom of the world.

Because sometimes the most efficient route from A to B isn't a straight line.

Single runway interrupted by a busy road that cuts across its middle.

The most southerly spot on New Zealand's South Island is home to surreally shaped, permanently mangled trees.

A giant doughnut was given to the small New Zealand town of Springfield to promote "The Simpsons Movie."

Strolling through these vintage locomotives offers a surprising amount of insight into the history of Kenya.

A kitschy stop on the way to Zion National Park.

A cozy bookstore is tucked within an old gold mine shaft beneath the cafe and ice cream shop.

Dance on a hand-hewn log floor padded with bouncy boxcar springs at a saloon built in 1883.

The glacier tucked within a New Zealand rainforest.

A glacier pocked with ice caves and surrounded by rainforests.

Tubing through a cave lit with glowworms is a magical underground experience.