Places Brett Iredell Wants to Go

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

The timepiece that exonerated a labor radical accused of a parade bombing that killed ten people.

The beauty and the beast of hydraulic mining is on full display at this California Historic State Park.

In the back of a nondescript sports bar is a museum-worthy mural by legendary cartoonists.

A ring of creosote bushes that are estimated to be 11,700 years old.

This iconic tattoo shop has its own onsite museum with artifacts from the early history of modern body art.

The only thing stranger than stumbling onto these philosophical musings is the story of the homesteader who created them.

This monument remembers the first Japanese Americans forcibly relocated during World War II.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

A small museum in the Bay of Pigs gives the Cuban perspective on the famously failed U.S. invasion.

A sign marks the plane crash that caused two nuclear bombs to fall in North Carolina.

A long spiraling walkway winds through the woods, and around a copper beech tree at the center.

A tribute to the incredible generosity the Choctaw Nation showed the Irish people during the Great Famine.

This sun-scorched lakebed contains samples of half the natural elements known to humankind.

The meteor that sealed the fate of the dinosaurs landed at this site, one of the largest impact craters in the world.

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

Peruse rare tomes like poetry bound in pearls or books with branches and berries growing out of their spines.

This hidden sculpture garden full of Wild West art is one of San Antonio's best-kept secrets.

One poet's handmade, anachronistic home.

Two well-hidden huts let animal lovers spend the night among the bears, wolves, and other predators of the forest.

A watering hole where the options for seating include a bar, patio, or subterranean cave.

Downieville's largest Gold Rush structure still standing has one of the longest bars in California.

This arts and culture cultural center explores the diverse cultural heritage of the American West.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.