Places johannahelenchan Wants to Go

A stone troll guards the hike that leads to this waterfall.

This natural sea cave hides a small wonderland of natural turquoise beauty.

North America's first Indigenous-owned winery is located within Canada's only desert-like ecosystem.

An abandoned network of military bunkers and tunnels open for anyone willing to descend into the darkness.

This vast, pristine wilderness is home to a rare subspecies of black bear.

The frozen bubbles that form on the icy surface of this Canadian lake contain enough methane to create a small explosion.

Every fall this lake mysteriously drains, like a bathtub with the plug pulled out.

An ancient cave system in Tennessee’s Appalachian foothills converted to a 1,200-person music venue.

The scant remains of this flooded historic village can be explored in one of the most remote areas of the Great Smokies.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

Thousand-year-old trees tower within one of the world's only inland temperate rainforests.

A whimsical village of unique treehouses resides in a Washington forest.

Museum of stuffed gophers set up in various scenes.

What was to be the world's most secure Cold War document vault ended up as just a few shallow caves.

The ruins of the "20-year town" lay out among the mountains of Alberta.

Sleep snuggled in a sphere suspended atop the forest canopy of Vancouver Island.

The remains of a Canadian train crash are now mouldering beneath layers of rust and graffiti.

Cascading outward, this waterfall creates the appearance of a flowing veil.

Railways may have forged this quintet of lovely tunnels, but now they are open to hikers.

Every four years, millions of salmon fill a river so densely that its waters appear deep crimson.

The site of a strange super top-secret military experiment during WWII on a remote Canadian lake.