Places Annie Oortman Wants to Go

This massive and unusual rock formation near Okotoks is the world's largest known glacial erratic.

The only way to visit this old resort hotel is with scuba gear.

A surviving remnant of the thick ice mass that once mantled most of Western Canada's mountains.

Live long and prosper in Vulcan, Alberta.

Huge spherical rocks in the middle of the prairie.

Hoodoos, naturally eroded land formations, stand 20 feet tall in the Canadian Badlands.

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.

Few other hotels can rival the grandeur of the Castle in the Rockies.

One of the most iconic neon ads of former East Germany.

This small exhibition displays equipment and artifacts once belonging to the feared Stasi secret police.

This incredible stone temple is a monument to death, victory, and fantasy architecture.

This towering church is home to a world-famous organ and a treasure trove of medieval art.

This gigantic monument hidden in the woods was built to thank the Dutch for sheltering Belgian refugees during World War I.

The gargoyles and grotesques of the 21st century are here—22 emoji built into a new building in the Netherlands.

A nuclear reactor created for Eisenhower's "Atoms for Peace" campaign is now used for research at a Dutch university.

Now a museum, this building was once a 14th-century monastery and the place where the founder of the Dutch nation lived and was assassinated.

Pull up and have a drink at a museum filled with hundreds of years' worth of shipwreck artifacts.

Tucked away in the Leiden city hall are a group of works by famed artist MC Escher.

An overgrown and largely forgotten cemetery lies hidden within the outskirts of Amsterdam.

This miniature take on the Kremlin is one Dutch man's retirement project.

A historic observatory now an astronomy museum beautifully situated at the moat of the Middle Age city centre.

A seven-century-old jail tells a not-so-pleasant history of crime and punishment.

A miniature city, once ruled by the Queen of the Netherlands.