Places akornblatt Wants to Go

This historic Victorian hotel has a scandalous history of affairs and murder.

One artist's yard is full of shining, whirling kinetic sculptures that look like pure steel psychedelia.

A large spinning bath of liquid mercury, used to probe the early universe.

Historic psychiatric asylum and most-filmed location in the Great White North.

While these wooden totems bear a striking resemblance to First Nations artwork of British Columbia, their actual origins lay on the opposite side of the Pacific Ocean.

The mountaintop wind turbine boasts a viewing deck — and a fair share of controversy.

This expansive bridge in the Canadian wilderness was originally just built for friends.

A high point in Vancouver kitsch.

This conservatory allows a little bit of the tropics to thrive in the middle of a major Canadian city.

A renegade art installation in a small Vancouver park is now officially sanctioned by the City Parks Department.

Traditional 15th century Chinese garden in the middle of Vancouver.

A pixel art killer whale is frozen mid-leap in this Vancouver square.

Antiques shop filled with all manner of curious collectibles.

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

This Art Deco masterpiece has stood in for some of the most famous buildings in comic book history.

This experimental utopian "city of the future" in rural India may hold a dark secret.

Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.

A small town garden is dedicated to a psychic dog with the most soulful eyes.

Three wildly colorful calderas top this otherworldly volcano chain.

The world's largest wooden structure.

The rusty hull of this 1899 ship serves as a tribute to explorers of the bottom of the world.

A 16th-century Andalusian palace.

Cliffside houses provide a spectacular view from their perch above the valley.

The true depths of these stunning Moroccan caves are unknown.