Places Brett Iredell Wants to Go

It took over half a century but a Russian monument to a famous and tragic space pup finally stands in Moscow.

Moscow's imposing monument to the Space Age.

A sculpture park of the tossed aside relics of the USSR, from Stalin to a massive Soviet emblem.

A simple plaque remembers an act of WWI terrorism that obliterated an island and forever scarred the Statue of Liberty.

The walls of Germany's Parliament still show the scars of the Red Army takeover in World War II.

Civil War dumping ground for the bodies of terrorized Union sympathizers.

Site of the largest impact event to occur over land in Earth's recorded history.

Over 1.3 million confiscated wildlife products fill this macabre menagerie of illegal animal specimens.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

One North Dakota man's vast collection of rare rocks, polished orbs, and geological wonders.

The final resting place of many of Germany's most famous communists.

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.

This quiet park's strange sedimentary spires were named after Kodak's color film.

Under a playground is a little-known sealed train tunnel that likely contains the bodies of workers trapped by cave-ins.

A diminutive plaque recalls the treetop sniper who almost killed Abe Lincoln.

The single richest source of elemental discoveries in the world.

A home built with marble tombstones from the graves of 2,200 Union soldiers buried in a Virginia cemetery.

At this Minnesota state park you can easily wade across the source of the mighty Mississippi.

A piece of the iconic wall found an unlikely new home in a Vegas bathroom.

Cold War intelligence agents monitored communist embassies from an attic in a former pigeon coop.

A metal ring in the middle of the road marks the exact spot where the Soviet satellite crash-landed in 1962.

An abandoned socialist utopia built in the late 19th century.

A graceful natural rock formation stands astride the point where the Gulf of California meets the Pacific Ocean.