Places Brett Iredell Wants to Go

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

A sweet tribute to Georgia's official state vegetable, which even has its own mascot: "Yumion."

A reminder to choose water over wine since 1888.

A hoard of sky catalogs, astrophysical journals, even the works of Galileo and Copernicus.

A poignant memorial to the 106 coal miners killed in three major accidents in Derbyshire.

An ancient capital city that dates back 3,000 years and harbors many surprises.

The largest stone moai on Rapa Nui.

The intricate stonework of Machu Picchu serves as a testament to Incan engineers.

A Texas-sized particle collider that was abandoned due to its Texas-sized budget.

An abandoned relic of the city's failed experiment with below ground transit.

The famous artist couple lived and worked here, in two different houses connected by a bridge.

Artifacts fill the old headquarters of the hugely influential political movement to ban alcohol in the United States.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

Where the Great Wall of China meets the sea.

One of the largest, oldest, darkest, quietest motel rooms in the world.

A wild west land agreement was etched right onto this historic Idaho stone.

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

A bronze ballot box stands at the spot where Susan B. Anthony voted illegally.

A dark tunnel leads to a striking white crater that seems to be from another planet.

A site where “the ravages of the war are more striking…than any other place in contemporary Spain.”