Places Brett Iredell Wants to Go

Underneath downtown Lincoln resides a network of caves that was also the city's first brewery.

Over thousands of years, this slot canyon was carved out of the bed of an ancient lake.

A charming, homemade vending machine dispenses burgers and sandwiches at this hole-in-the-wall bakery.

Explore the wide world of desert plants at this unique Palm Springs botanical garden.

This small museum once served as a royal hunting pavilion for King Otto Friedrich Ludwig.

Named after the German word for "a longingness to travel," this park brings together thousands of city and street signs from around the world.

One of the notorious Soviet leader Joseph Stalin's many summer retreats.

Watch bison, elk, and other wild animals up close at this national park.

Hidden on the seventh floor of a historic building, this Cajun spot features wall-to-wall bottles of hot sauce.

Colorful mineral deposits turn these mountains into an Impressionist fantasy.

One of the last free public hot springs is decorated with hippie art.

The "Sultan of Swat" once attended a school at the site of this baseball field.

A memorial to those who died at the hands of the Kuomintang while fighting for communism in China.

A mapping error in the 19th century made loggers think this section of the forest was underwater.

America's silhouette includes 100 square miles of wilderness jutting into Canada thanks to an old mapmaking error.

This Minnesota-shaped forest is actually located in the state it is shaped like.

A memorial to a larger-than-life legend, inside a county that also holds Bunyan's death certificate.

The first firefighters museum in southern Spain is ironically located in an old textile mill that burned down in 1985.

Hundreds of stones dangle from barren trees in the middle of the desert.

This ancient burial site is believed to be one of the first earthquake-protected structures in the world.

This ruined fortress was the stronghold for a persecuted medieval leader and his infamous Assassins.

Celebrated as a center of civilization, the remains of the ancient city have been nearly destroyed by greed, egoism, and war.

America's oldest archaeological site or a muddled case of wishful thinking.

Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.