Places aRedLetterLife Wants to Go

A historic neighborhood church is reborn as a psychedelic arts collective.

The spot where the namesake of the Douglas fir met his mysterious end on a Hawaiian volcano.

This Minsk museum has cat coffee, cat chess, cat art, and even a cat "staff," which visitors are free to take home.

An enigmatic natural rock formation with a manmade passage cut through the center.

An enigmatic modern marker left next to a historic Roman site.

One of the most breathtaking railways in Europe also takes one of the steepest climbs, from fjord to mountain plateau.

A sweet symbol marks the place where torturous executions were once carried out.

The heart of a Scottish legend had a centuries-long journey before reaching its final resting place.

A circle stone within a stone circle.

Fossils, railroads, and waterfalls!

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

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

Bird dung painted this huge boulder which in turn inspired the name of a city.

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

A high point in Vancouver kitsch.

Housing a morgue, rare and confiscated weapons, and autopsy remains, the Vancouver police museum displays the dark side of Canada.

At just six feet two inches deep, it is said by Guiness and Ripley to be the world’s narrowest freestanding office building.

Surprisingly delicious Asian-style hot dogs.

The remote outlaw hideout of Jesse James, Butch Cassidy, and the Sundance Kid.

Giant granite sculptures representing family on the northern coast of Spain.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.

A Buddhist temple to honor insects that died for science.

A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.