Places brianajreidy Wants to Go

One of the world's largest automobile junkyards is a unique landscape of metal and moss.

Just a few miles from downtown Atlanta is a trail covered in a crazy collection of outsider art.

The only arched bridge made of stone on the entire Mississippi River.

Find out what it sounds like when doves cry at Prince's recording studio estate turned museum.

Home to the Amorphophallus titanum "Corpse Flower," which is among the largest flowers in the world and also smells powerfully of rotting flesh when in bloom.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

South Dakota's oldest operating brewery is housed inside a historic firehouse.

This geodesic gallery holds a collection of painted spheres that make traditional canvases look lazy by comparison.

Thanks to a loophole in property ownership, this alleyway has become a cacophonous street gallery.

One of the best places to see wild Colonial Spanish Mustangs in the United States.

A mailbox that saved a nature reserve.

A psychological self-portrait in the form of a giant, segmented head.

A former Oz-themed attraction that has fallen into disrepair, but still holds some of the original magic.

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

This psychedelic tromp l'oeil seems to be beckoning drivers to crash into a wall.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

Take a drunken tour inside the world's largest known geode.

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

Celebrating the end of winter, students gather every year at Lake Superior State University to torch a 12-foot-tall snowman.

The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.

Hell on Earth is actually a small town in Michigan where anyone can be mayor for a day.

Turnip-shaped island just off the Michigan shore in Lake Huron.

Abandoned concert venue legendary for its rock counterculture.

A flamboyantly decorated bridge signals diversity and fellowship at the entry to Indianapolis' Broad Ripple Village.