Places IronQueen Wants to Go

Circus cemetery for all the “showmen under God’s big top.”

English-speaking soldiers discovered Europe's best one-liner at the end of World War II, before the town’s name changed.

Live long and prosper in Vulcan, Alberta.

A new kind of theme park for adults off the Las Vegas Strip.

Temporary Burning Man sculpture made of two 18-wheelers.

Back in 1952, you could get a mushroom cloud chaser with your atomic cocktail.

Las Vegas's very own 40-foot-tall fire-spewing praying mantis.

“Live hard, ride fast, eat pizza” at this joint filled with Evel Knievel memorabilia.

Ethereal alien hums and haunting whale songs emitting from...a giant sheet of vibrating metal?

The R&B singer's modest church guarantees a religious experience, regardless of your beliefs.

The metal spire on the roof of this tower was intended as an airship docking station, but it was never actually used.

In 1911 this intersection was called "the heaviest corner in the South," an outlandish claim that only grew wilder over the years.

Once one of the largest producers of pig iron in the world.

Since it formed millions of years ago, this cave system has been a sacred burial ground, a Prohibition-era speakeasy, and the center of an amusement park.

A local dive where religious kitsch, Southern identity, and queer culture collide.

Unruly residents were housed in this one-person cell until the Black Maria arrived.

An underground magnet for ever-changing street art.

Rare and classic books by Black authors are the focus at this independent bookstore in a historic Atlanta neighborhood.

The largest cemetery in the American Southeast is a hidden gem near the heart of Atlanta.

The ruins of a cotton mill that was burned in the Civil War are still hidden in a Georgia forest.

A strange history museum, with items accumulated by a pair of globe trotting spies.

This small cemetery contains the graves of prisoners of war who were interred at Fort McClellan during World War II.

A man's home is his castle.

A colorful square marks the heart of the city's LGBTQ community.