Places Brett Iredell Wants to Go

Every May, townspeople welcome summer with a bizarre pagan parade led by a man wrapped in garlands.

Wooden sleds have replaced donkeys to cart goods around this utterly charming car-free village.

A hidden gem of a saloon in the middle of a ghost town.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

A quirky bookstore hidden beneath a sea of whitewashed Greek villas.

The secret room where early Bolsheviks cranked out propaganda fliers on a smuggled printing press.

A meandering boardwalk across the bogland leads to a "stairway to heaven" with sublime views.

The Sighignola summit on the Swiss border offers views so breathtaking it's been named one of the most beautiful places in Italy.

This narrow canyon has been carved by the river over thousands of years into spectacular and curious forms.

China’s breathtaking futuristic library is lined floor to ceiling with fake books.

The watery grave of Captain Bligh's famous ship.

A plaque immortalizes the spot where the early American spy said his famous last words: "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."

The neighborhood shop is a sort of tiny cactus museum full of exotic specimens you can take home.

A beautiful but toxic fountain of mercury.

Dr. Strangelove-esque tours reveal the inside a bunker once reserved for Stalin himself.

The villagers of the coldest inhabited place on Earth adjust to unique challenges presented by day-to-day living.

An 18th century wonder of the world, lost in WWII, re-created at the Catherine Palace.

The hottest, driest, and most scenic desert on Earth.

Manchester salvaged this sculpture of the adopted Mancunian when it was no longer wanted in Ukraine.

A tiny museum in Esperance, Australia, displays a bunch of space debris from NASA’s Skylab.

These colorful French islands spent a stint bootlegging booze during American Prohibition.

The hellish conditions of this abandoned mine that snakes beneath the Pacific Ocean gave it its diabolic name.

A quirky Poe-themed joint on an island keen to celebrate its overlooked connection to the famous writer.

A quiet ode to Communist China's propaganda machine, including a newspaper edited by Mao Zedong's own hand.