Places Irongoddess Wants to Go

This small hill features the most notable collection of petroglyphs in Saguaro National Park.

This giant steer-skull edifice refuses to die.

A remote desert monument marks where a priest and explorer entered what later became Arizona.

This beautiful landscape is the only Sichuan-style garden outside of China.

The oldest public library in Ireland.

More than 5,000 artifacts donated by the people of the city, plus a room entirely devoted to the band U2.

A two-storey cabinet of wonders filled with the bizarre, the macabre, and the downright uncanny.

This courtly monument celebrates an influential comedian who turned taking the piss out of the powers-that-be into an art.

The comedy and tragedy of Oscar Wilde is preserved in a Dublin park, captured in a sculpture of colorful stone.

The house where the writer spent his formative years.

This Boeing KC-97 tanker is now a restaurant for aviation lovers.

This grand stone tower was dedicated to a famed American humorist almost by coincidence.

Hidden beneath a bridge, this waterfall is known for the large amounts of graffiti painted on its base.

This super steep hike ascends 2,000 feet in less than a mile.

This enigmatic building features numerous architectural styles.

There are eight natural springs around town, each with a slightly different taste.

These faux-cliff dwellings allow visitors to climb around on a replica archaeological site.

In addition to over 80 vehicles on display covering over 100 years of motorcycle history, this free museum focuses on the people who ride and love these bikes.

This historic tower in the California desert promises visitors a "vortex of good vibes".

Where there's quartz, there must be gold. Thus is the story of the mines of Julian, and the titillating times of the Gold Rush.

Spend a day hanging out with domesticated Russian foxes.

Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.

The overgrown ruins of a once thriving World War I-era copper mine.

This dark, quiet forest on the outskirts of San Diego is dense with rumor and lore.