Places Brett Iredell Wants to Go

Bioluminescence in the reefs of the Maldives causes the sea to glow like a starry night sky.

The fictional star of "Breaking Bad" is memorialized with a real-life gravestone in his hometown.

One of Chicago's last seafood smokehouses perfects a dying breed of fishcraft.

Eat a tasty meal in the house where John Steinbeck was born.

Dance on a hand-hewn log floor padded with bouncy boxcar springs at a saloon built in 1883.

In a sleepy village in Oxfordshire, the visionary English writer's gravesite attracts a yearly pilgrimage.

This architectural onion has an original 1930's Jerry O'Mahony dining car at its core.

This “living museum” at UCLA exhibits thousands of plant species from all over the world.

Serving Central Asian breads that range from cracker-crisp to warm and fluffy, this bakery brings Bukhara to Queens.

A hidey-hole sandwiched between cellphone, DVD, and jewelry stores features Tibetan delights.

This historic pub has maintained much of its 1906 decor, including a small sequestered room for women, where orders were slipped through a tiny window.

Creating this diorama spurred naturalist Carl Akeley to begin advocating to protect the apes.

In the mid-20th century, a tamale-slinging juke joint attracted a diverse clientele in the Mississippi Delta.

Explore the history of Mexico's lesser-known ancient alcoholic beverage.

Here be dragons.

The grave of the legendary "Bonzo" can often be seen covered in cymbals and drumsticks.

This former mining hub holds a surprising abundance of undisturbed relics from the Old West.

These ungulates have quite literally bounced back from the brink of extinction.

Within the former ghost town of Cisco is a carefully restored tiny town with one resident and its own art residency.

Rumored to have been frequented by Vincent van Gogh, it's the only remaining genever producer in the Hague.

This Catskills museum preserves stumps from the earliest known fossil forest on Earth.

This road earned its macabre nickname after hundreds of Iraqi troops died along it in 1991.

These three pillboxes still remain as a witness of the Spanish Civil War in a park of Madrid.

The world-record holder for the longest bridge stretching continuously over water.