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Brett Iredell

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Formerly a bartender from Washington, DC, now a wildland firefighter in the American Southwest.

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The Shady Dell

Bisbee, Arizona

The Shady Dell

Collection of vintage trailers double as hotel rooms.

Erie Street, Historic Lowell

Bisbee, Arizona

Erie Street, Historic Lowell

A living snapshot of a different time in America is preserved and maintained by a community of volunteers.

Gleeson Jail

Elfrida, Arizona

Gleeson Jail

An early 20th-century jail not far from the infamous Tombstone, Arizona.

Soldiers Hole

Elfrida, Arizona

Soldiers Hole

All that's left of a former camp and settlement is a plaque commemorating the water source found at this remote site.

The Chiricahua Desert Museum is located in Rodeo, New Mexico.

Rodeo, New Mexico

Chiricahua Desert Museum

This rural museum is home to more than 50 local desert reptiles and the world's largest snake bite kit collection.

Last Supper Museum

Douglas, Arizona

Last Supper Museum Art & Music Center

With more than 2,000 pieces, this is world's largest collection of artwork inspired by Leonardo da Vinci's 'The Last Supper.'

Gadsden Hotel Windows

Douglas, Arizona

Gadsden Hotel Windows

The lobby of this hotel near the U.S.-Mexico border features a stained-glass mural that measures 42 feet long and 6 feet tall.

Equal Justice Mural

Annapolis, Maryland

Equal Justice Mural

A mural honoring two trailblazing Supreme Court Justices—Thurgood Marshall and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Nothing beats an in-season fried green tomato BLT.

Vicksburg, Mississippi

The Tomato Place

Pull off Highway 61 in high summer for fried green tomato BLTs, turkey legs, and boiled peanuts.

Don Laughlin's Classic Car Museum

Laughlin, Nevada

Don Laughlin's Classic Car Museum

The gambling entrepreneur who built a city was also an avid collector of classic cars.

Goffs Schoolhouse

Goffs, California

Goffs Schoolhouse Museum

Built as a schoolhouse in 1914, this Mission-style building has also served as a dancehall, a library, an Army canteen, and now a cultural museum.

An enviable view.

Twentynine Palms, California

The Ruins of Ryan Ranch

The decaying adobe remains of an old homestead are just off the beaten path in Joshua Tree National Park.

Skull Rock really catches the light during golden hour.

Twentynine Palms, California

Skull Rock

An eerie natural formation that looks right back at you.

Mojave Shoe Station

Blythe, California

Mojave Shoe Station

A collection of old shoes in the middle of nowhere.

Museum of the Weird, May 2018

Austin, Texas

Museum of the Weird

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

A Moonlight Tower at night

Austin, Texas

Austin Moonlight Towers

Turning night into day in Victorian-era Austin to thwart a serial killer.

Crowds gather to watch the bats fly out as the sun sets.

Austin, Texas

Congress Bridge Bats

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

The two Frost Bank logos make up the eyes of the "Owl Building."

Austin, Texas

Frost Bank Tower

Locals dubbed it the "Owl Building" because of its bird-like appearance.

Ms. Pearl

Cedar Creek, Texas

Ms. Pearl

The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.

U.S.S. Cairo - Front/right.

Vicksburg, Mississippi

U.S.S. Cairo

This iron and wood Civil War city-ship was the first vessel to be sunk by an electrically detonated torpedo.

Saucers in the desert.

Ocotillo, California

Coyote's Flying Saucer Retrievals and Repairs

A UFO scrapyard in the California desert.

The actual tombstone of Billy the Kid

Fort Sumner, New Mexico

Grave of Billy the Kid

The final resting place of the most famous outlaw in the Old West.

Much of the area has been impacted by agriculture and levee construction.  But the low lying location still holds water.

Delta, Louisiana

Grant's Canal

The ill-fated plan to reroute the Mississippi so that Union ships could bypass Confederate fortifications on the river bend.

Omega Mart

Las Vegas, Nevada

Omega Mart at Area 15

A surreal, interdimensional shopping center and portal to another universe by Meow Wolf.

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