Places Brett Iredell Wants to Go

A South African bar inside a hollowed out 6,000-year-old Baobab.

The site of William McKinley's tragic assassination is only marked by an underwhelming boulder.

A stone arch leads to a cavernous 1930s spring house tucked away in the Pennsylvania woods.

Martin Bricelj Baraga's monolithic sculpture measures the blueness of the sky, and changes color to match it.

About 80% of all U.S. avocados are descendants of Rudolph Hass's glorious tree.

This tiny museum's sizable collection is jammed into a former underground public toilet.

Activists are fighting to preserve these unfinished highway ramps as a tribute to the citizen revolt that halted their construction decades ago.

The site where a nuclear bomb was lowered over 8,000 feet underground and detonated as an experiment in natural gas extraction.

A distillery built on (and above!) mobster Dutch Schultz's Prohibition-era underground moonshine business.

Once a popular watering hole among longshoremen and shipyard workers, this neighborhood treasure spans more than 100 years of Red Hook history.

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

A local dialect born in the late 19th century is only spoken in this isolated California valley.

Featuring one of the most complete and original collections of Presidential memorabilia, this is the site of the last front porch presidential campaigns.

These bronze pamphlets remember a remarkable group of Germans who fearlessly opposed the Nazis in the very center of their power.

“The oddest pub in South Africa,” inspired by a practical joke.

Mexico's first public cable car soars over the congested streets outside Mexico City.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

Human skulls and a stuffed goat made into a rocking chair can be found at this strange little store.

A blank headstone topped with a pile of pennies marks the final resting place of the infamous assassin.

The famous abolitionist’s preserved estate is one of Washington's finest monuments to its great Black citizens.

This unlicensed collection of fast-food memorabilia sits on the site of the first ever McDonald's restaurant.

A series of recreated fortifications mark George Orwell's path through the Spanish Civil War.

These enduring murals depicting a distinctly Marxist tribute to capitalism could not even be defeated by McCarthyism.

A 500-year-old series of tunnels long believed to be folkloric was uncovered beneath the streets of Puebla.