Places summermaddux Wants to Go

On the outskirts of a desert trading village high on the Andean plain, steel giants have been destroyed by salt winds.

Initially meant to immortalize the valor of the colonizer, this monument is now a symbol of Mauritanian resistance.

Stand inside the dark interior of an historic redwood tree that once was used as a general's headquarters.

This garden is very fertile.

A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.

A towering tribute to old-fashioned laundry days, this giant washboard monument turns a simple chore into a playful spectacle!

A crumbling Caribbean resort hidden just steps from a beautiful pink sand beach.

Blink and you’ll miss it—the tiniest street in America packs a lot of charm into just a few steps.

At night, bats patrol this magnificent 18th-century space in search of book-eating pests.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

A small shop filled with history, mystery, folklore, and more.

The only thing still moving in this town is the eponymous hot spring.

This wilderness hike to a waterfall has an unlikely beginning in suburban Reno.

An ill-fated attempt to grow wheat in the sagebrush steppe of northeastern Nevada.

The world's largest dead polar bear, immortalized by taxidermy and Hunter S. Thompson.

Local history museum with mammoth bones and an old myth about local giants

These once-beautiful historic graveyards are set against the barren Virginia City hills.

The eerie ruins of an isolated abandoned town nicknamed "the Widowmaker" for its deadly gold mine.

Bringing back the art of handmade custom coffins.

Preserving the remains of Native American cultures which otherwise would have been submerged behind Hoover Dam.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

The only thing better than tubing down New Jersey's scenic Delaware River is doing so while eating a hot dog from a giant floating stand.

The sign at the garden gate reads: “These Plants Can Kill.”

A unique museum focusing on the history of carpets and fabrics from different tribes and eras in Moroccan history.