Places Sidetrakn Wants to Go

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

A memorial to the unknown and unheralded men and women of the Cold War military and intelligence services.

The rusting remains of the largest assembled WWII fleet on the West Coast.

Eulogizing an unknown man's unusual demise.

The farthest you can be in the contiguous U.S. from a McDonald's location.

The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.

Tucked away on a scenic trail, a modest memorial honors one of the greatest writers of our time.

Large tower used for simulating radiation of Hiroshima bomb and the tallest object ever relocated.

A hidden gem of a saloon in the middle of a ghost town.

The self-made house sculpture of an outsider artist who named himself "Chief Rolling Thunder."

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

This railroad magnate's 19th century tower is more than a little bit out of place in the Nevada desert.

Massive crater in central Oregon.

This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.

100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

Mine your own precious stones.

The largest man-made crater in the U.S. marks the spot where we once tested mining with nukes.

Potential high level nuclear waste storage site for the next 10,000 years and beyond.

An eatery for UFO seekers on the Extraterrestrial Highway.

Back in 1952, you could get a mushroom cloud chaser with your atomic cocktail.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.