Places Brett Iredell Wants to Go

Supremely flaky treats await at Amadou Ly’s boulangerie and patisserie.

Visit a family-run restaurant that has been serving the epitome of soul food for more than seven decades.

This site commemorates the birthplace of the game of basketball, invented by James Naismith in the winter of 1891.

A rainbow of kulfi and falooda flows from this Indian-style ice cream parlor.

Buttermilk biscuits so nice, you'll say “yay” twice.

Pickles belong on pizza and this freewheeling outpost proves it.

This beloved cheeseburger-slinging trailer holds Nashville's oldest beer license.

The second-largest giant sequoia in the world.

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

This scenic cable car ride glides 100 feet above Mexico City.

The oldest operating picture gardens in the world.

A two-inch thick solid brass rod that extends an astounding one kilometer straight into the earth.

Beautiful Austrian natural history museum with carved ceilings and row after row of ancient taxidermy.

Located right outside of Vienna, visitors can take in expansive views of an ethereal forest.

This Austrian museum celebrates the work of famous forgers and their inimitable imitations.

Handsomely crafted representations of our round planet.

The massive mountain ash that once stood at this site was cut down in an effort to prove that it was, indeed, the tallest of its kind.

Colorado's only active volcano last erupted around 4,000 years ago.

An early 20th-century fire lookout, still in intermittent use, preserves legacy fire-locating equipment.

Underneath this water pump, Annie Sullivan helped Keller speak her first words.

On a corner of the Ardmeanach peninsula on the Isle of Mull, a 50 million-year-old fossil tree hides in the coastal cliffs.

What was once a communal kitchen now serves heaping portions of hearty German fare.

The helicopter that "Tricky Dick" absconded from the White House in on his last day in office.

This ambitious restaurant celebrates the culinary traditions of the Ozarks before 1870.