Places Annie Oortman Wants to Go

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

It’s not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music’s library has been described as a “cathedral of books.”

This abandoned asylum was once a state of the art facility before devolving into one of the most deadly mental institutions in American history.

The White House Situation Room was taken apart in 2006 and shipped to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.

A herd of colorfully painted bovine statues can be found in the middle of "cowtown."

One of the largest collections of carriages, buggies, and wagons in the world.

An outdoor installation of 20 vintage signs that once hung in front of businesses throughout town.

With its webbed walls and bright red coloring, Calgary's iconic bridge looks like a finger trap puzzle stretched across the river.

An automotive, farming machinery, and aviation museum located in Wetaskiwin, Alberta, Canada.

Canada’s surprisingly controversial monument to Dwight Eisenhower.

Kitschy steak joint where customers can cook their own meat over an eternal flame.

This First Nations monument is a peaceful spot with vast views of the Calgary prairie.

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

Possibly the world’s easiest Easter-egg hunt.

A sleepy little town that had the greatest landslide in North American history fall on it.

A small and quirky museum hidden inside a fence.

Sitting empty in a lonely Canadian field is a century-old stone bunker sometimes called "One Man's Castle."

Eclectic musical collection ranging from hurdy gurdies and orphicas to the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio.

The granite head appears to be deep in thought and half buried in the ground.

Historic site where Native American hunters once trapped and killed buffalo.

This natural wonder is disappearing at an alarming rate.

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