Places BeerAndLoathing Wants to Go

The world's largest dead polar bear, immortalized by taxidermy and Hunter S. Thompson.

An ill-fated attempt to grow wheat in the sagebrush steppe of northeastern Nevada.

A university observatory dome painted to resemble the beloved 'Star Wars' droid.

A 500-year-old series of tunnels long believed to be folkloric was uncovered beneath the streets of Puebla.

A lighthouse built to save lives that took quite a few with its treacherous location.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.

Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

Sunset-colored dunes of volcanic ash make taking a poor photo impossible.

This ultra-modern California span is actually a titanic solar clock in disguise built by famed architect Santiago Calatrava.

A grove of "candelabra redwoods" deep in California's Lost Coast.

A pair of mutilated bronze octopuses slump at the base of the monument honoring California's admission to the U.S.

A collaboration of art and ornithology mourns the calls of Sydney's lost birds.

A frozen oasis lies beneath the scorching New Mexico desert.

A creek tumbles over a series of step-like rocks to create this scenic water feature.

A tiny plaque hidden miles into the Washington wilderness is all that remains to honor a shipwreck that left 18 people dead.

While it is not equipped to peer into outer space this observatory looks like it was built on the moon.

This grove of ghostly cedars was killed in 1700 by an enormous tsunami, felt from the United States to Japan.

One man's eclectic collection of treasures found at sea.

The remains of a former logging boom town, crumbled away in the forest.

This unique library spans a mighty river.

A normal, unassuming pedestrian overpass has been the demise of many, many trucks.

A rare tour of a commercial jet assembly plant, held inside one of the largest buildings in the world.