Places Shiv Wants to Go

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

An abandoned incline railway site is now a green space with six acres of trails connecting hilltop neighborhoods.

A volcanic core jutting above the plain between the Snake and Boise Rivers, a marker identifies the reference point for all U.S. Government Surveys in Idaho.

This ferry carries passengers across the Rhine propelled by no engine or paddles but by the river's current.

After fleeing the Syrian civil war, chef Malakeh Jazmati began serving exceptional renditions of her homeland's cuisine in Berlin.

The first mountain submarine had its initial and last voyage in 1898.

The last remaining 19th-century mile marker along the historic Ocean Parkway.

This vivid painted ceramic sculpture evokes the expansiveness of the prairie sky.

This harrowing climb along West Virginia's jagged spires is one of the only Via Ferrata on America's east coast.

The rusting hulk of a 250-foot-long merchant vessel remains where she grounded on the shore of Hudson Bay.

Winter and summer solstice aligned sculpture in the middle of nowhere.

One of America's largest retail chains got its start in one of its most remote rural destinations.

A small museum celebrating the fiberglass giants that are icons of America's highways.

This unfinished tribute to a hometown hero and early baseball great is now an abandoned roadside attraction.

This historic Ellinwood hotel is also home to underground tunnels that were a popular haunt during Prohibition.

After the comedian dissed a Connecticut town on his show, they named a sewage treatment plant after him.

Provincetown's night owls flock to this 52-year-old pizza joint.

Meet Rita the Rock Planter, one of Danish sculptor Thomas Dambo's enormous wooden trolls.

A former sanitarium where soldiers were sent to recover in the healing waters of hot springs.

Natural hot springs hidden in the rainforest are only accessible by boat.

Tour a Cold War-era U.S. military missile launch site in Anchorage.

A geothermal paradise with bubbling mud pools and bright blue hot springs.

There's light and a dreamlike panorama at the end of this tunnel.

Sail through this subterranean show cave that is home to a legend that would go on to name nearly everything around it.