Places ykshaun Wants to Go

Nothing says indulgence like a 1,500-pound chocolate castle.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

This 1,700-pound edible sculpture is way better than your average chocolate mousse.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

The contents of this safe survived a 37-kiloton nuclear bomb.

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

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

This innocuous New Mexico storefront was once the secret jump-off spot for Manhattan Project scientists.

The site of an underground detonation of a megaton nuclear bomb in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

This museum started by a curious collector is now a place for believers and skeptics alike.

The “Grand Canyon of Maine” is a three-mile gorge full of striking geological features.

A mile-long audio-guided walking tour preserves an iconic era of Portland soul music.

Fifty years after a “blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds,” this idyllic natural area commemorates the carnage.

This rare, carefully curated collection showcases the history of neon inside a grandiose Elks lodge.

Sasqu(w)atch out!

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

The final resting place of a legendary science fiction author and his fraternal twin sister who died as an infant.

A tiny town’s tiny museum with some gigantic residents.

In a dry, neglected cemetery lies the unassuming grave of a soldier vilified in life but celebrated in death.

Once a lonely sentinel on the edge of the Great Plains, this rebuilt trading fort offers a glimpse of life on the Santa Fe Trail.

The building stands within a quiet, postcard-perfect New Mexico village.