Places Iosson Wants to Go

This Cold War–era fallout shelter was actually a storage facility for the nation's emergency currency.

A memorial to 350 people burned at the stake for witchcraft.

Stay overnight in the world's most sleekly designed rabbit hole, free of charge.

This declassified Cold War bunker hosts a large collection of Swedish aircraft.

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

This collection of neon icons is preserving Arizona's history, one sign at a time.

In Tucson a giant metal snake helps pedestrians cross a busy highway.

This scrap yard doubles as a naive art gallery full of found art and farm animals.

America's only nuclear missile silo open to the public.

After a short-lived attempt to bring America in line with the rest of the world, this road was left in metric.

This giant steer-skull edifice refuses to die.

One of the largest open-pit copper mining operations in the entire country.

This bomb shelter-themed bar has barely changed since it opened.

This sparsely populated town offers a look back in time.

Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.

This sculpture perfectly models the molecular structure of a drug that was never produced.

This innocuous New Mexico storefront was once the secret jump-off spot for Manhattan Project scientists.

This spectacular track has run continuously since 1882.

A riverside tiny house with books and other treasures galore.

No one knows exactly how deep the world’s deepest geothermal hot spring is.

Natural sonic phenomenon comes with a grisly legend of murder and blood.

The building stands within a quiet, postcard-perfect New Mexico village.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

Thousands of mounted insects, and some live ones, hide within an otherwise ordinary shopping mall.