Places joshuadmilley Wants to Go

Dedicated to the writer who immortalized the use of the poppy as a symbol of remembrance of those who died in wars.

One of the foremost Sherlock Holmes collections is hidden away at a Toronto library.

This "Palace of Purification" has made many film appearances as a dark and sinister headquarters.

305 homemade stone stairs wind their way up the Hamilton escarpment.

It took over 100 years to decode this enigmatic epitaph for two buried brides.

A beautiful final resting place with some surprising residents.

A marker commemorates a 1,400-pound wheel of cheese made to honor Andrew Jackson.

Rocky outcrops containing overhangs, caves, fissures, clefts, and alcoves that invite exploration and scrambling.

This half-ton piece of the Alps sits at the base of the CN Tower.

A flying saucer has landed for good in the middle of a tiny Canadian town.

This extensive nuclear fallout shelter built from 42 school buses could house 500 people in its tunnels.

Niagara Falls holds a special place in Nikola Tesla's history, so they put a statue on it.

This knick-knack-covered house (complete with a matching van) is a charming oddity in the middle of a modest downtown neighborhood.

Abandoned for over a century, this chilling train tunnel is now a destination for ghost hunters.

Soaring over the Niagara Whirlpool since 1916.

This whimsical fountain pays tribute to Toronto's four-legged friends.

Willy Wonka would love this weird half-a-home.

A sprawling Victorian farm that has been surrounded by a capital city is one of Canada's greatest treasures.

An abandoned Ontario prison turned over to time and nature.

A petroleum heritage museum on the site where James Miller Williams dug the first commercial oil well on the continent in 1858.

This uniquely shaped tombstone is dedicated to the project construction superintendent for the Empire State Building.

It may be a "Smoke Free Ontario" today, but at this museum you can still get a whiff of yesterday’s Golden Age of tobacco farming.

A massive, fading granite poem is all that remains of one Whitman superfan's tribute to the famous writer.

A rare venue to buy specialty maps.