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Brett Iredell

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Formerly a bartender from Washington, DC, now a wildland firefighter in the American Southwest.

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The Reading Room blends the intimacy of an inviting bar with the inviting solace of a good bookstore.

Chattanooga, Tennessee

The Reading Room

The shelves at this Chattanooga bar are stocked with used books, and buying one sends money back to the library.

Tito memorabilia on the wall inside.

Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Cafe Tito

Not your average Bosnian cafe — this locale is dedicated to the former Yugoslav dictator Tito.

Beer Spa Bernard private room

Prague, Czechia

Beer Spa Bernard

You can soak in private hot tubs infused with beer while pouring unlimited Czech beer from your own tap.

Looking upstream from above Diamond Creek landing.  Grand Canyon National Park to the left of the river; the Hualapai Reservation to the right.

Peach Springs, Arizona

Diamond Creek

The only place in the Grand Canyon where an automobile can be driven to the Colorado River

On the way to the tripoint, looking northeasterly.  The tripoint is pretty much on the skyline to the left of the low skylined mesa.

Mesquite, Nevada

AZ-NV-UT Tri-State Monument

The junction point of Arizona, Nevada, and Utah, resurveyed and remonumented in 2016

The Mushroom Shop

Somerville, Massachusetts

The Mushroom Shop

Tucked away on Somerville Avenue is a curated mycological gallery.

The Pickle Guys

New York, New York

The Pickle Guys

The Pickle Guys stand as a salt-stained holdout of the Lower East Side’s historic pushcart culture.

Top Gun ‘Sleazy Bar’

San Diego, California

Top Gun ‘Sleazy Bar’

The Kansas City Barbecue restaurant also contains the original piano that was a central part of the famous "Great Balls of Fire" scene.

The path leads directly to the machine's protective red shed.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Perrystead Dairy Cheese Vending Machine

This mechanical marvel is a 24-hour cheese vending machine, holding freshly made cheeses from the internationally acclaimed Perrystead Dairy.

Acuario Inbursa

Mexico City, Mexico

Acuario Inbursa

The richest man in Mexico built the largest aquarium in Latin America 26 meters underground

The chili sauce ranking

Berlin, Germany

Curry & Chili Imbiß

The spiciest place in town - where one can and may cry

Coal-Fired Fish and Chip Shop

Upton, England

Coal-Fired Fish and Chip Shop

This traditionally British fish and chip shop is one of the few that still cooks its products in a coal-fired range.

Local favorite since way back!

Hood River, Oregon

Twin Peaks Drive In

Where hand-pressed burgers meet low-flying planes — a 1950s drive-in shack at the end of an active runway in the Columbia River Gorge, with Mount Hood on one side and Mount Adams on the other.

Buildings from the time of the U.S. Radium Corporation

Orange, New Jersey

Former Home of U.S. Radium Corporation

This is the location of the U.S. Radium Corporation where the “Radium Girls” worked, became sickened by radiation poisoning, with many dying horrible deaths.

Fault Whisper located in Fault Line Park

San Diego, California

Fault Whisper

Listen to the sounds of the Earth moving along the Rose Canyon Fault.

League Stadium

Huntingburg, Indiana

League Stadium

A historic small-town ballpark that became the on-screen home of the Rockford Peaches in “A League of Their Own.”

Valentine Texas Bar

Valentine, Texas

Valentine Texas Bar

An old adobe structure first built in the 1890s is a desert watering hole plastered with dollar bills and odd West Texas finds.

Hangry Planet

San Bruno, California

Hangry Planet

This place claims to be North America’s first vegan convenience store.

Nintendo Headquarters

Kyoto, Japan

Nintendo Headquarters

The home of Mario and his friends

A recreation of an earthwork structure built by colonists on Roanoke Island.

Manteo, North Carolina

The Lost Colony of Roanoke

Home to the first child born to English colonists in North America, this colony mysteriously disappeared while waiting for supplies.

Sponsored By Visit North Carolina
Fanny O’Deas

Ireland

Fanny O’Deas

One of Ireland’s oldest family-run pubs, with a unique feature.

Lake Champlain Causeway

South Hero, Vermont

Lake Champlain Causeway

This rail trail culminates in a three-mile land bridge only accessible to cyclists and pedestrians.

Maine Beer Company

Freeport, Maine

Maine Beer Company

Suspended from this brewery’s tasting room ceiling is a full-sized fin whale skeleton.

LSU Campus Mounds

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

LSU Campus Mounds

These 11,000-year-old mounds may be the oldest known human-made structures in the Americas.

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