Places badgersofdoom Wants to Go

The world's largest dark sky preserve is a Canadian park established to preserve the country’s wood bison population.

What was to be the world's most secure Cold War document vault ended up as just a few shallow caves.

Museum of stuffed gophers set up in various scenes.

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

This unlicensed collection of fast-food memorabilia sits on the site of the first ever McDonald's restaurant.

A swath of France so devastated by war it is still forbidden to go there.

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

The remains of a Canadian train crash are now mouldering beneath layers of rust and graffiti.

Fossils, railroads, and waterfalls!

Defying all odds, this lonely little tree found a home on a log sticking out of a Canadian lake.

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

A floating McDonald's built for Expo '86 is now a derelict relic on Burrard Inlet.

The wreckage still sits at the exact spot the plane crash-landed in 1945, carrying 1,000 pounds of explosives.

This country market harbors goats on its roof.

Unlike many reclaimed, abandoned mines, this Canadian cave system is still just a dangerous maze.

Beautiful mostly-abandoned town only accessible by sea-worthy boat or plane.

One of the final concrete ships built before World War II is now a crumbling breakwater.

At least 14 twice-retired ships were sunk to make a lovely rusting breakwater in Comox Harbour.

Greenery cloaks this serene sculpture inspired by the famous Lost Gardens of Heligan.

Underground tunnels once home to crime are now back open to the public.

Now abandoned, the first public health hospital in the U.S. saw more than one million immigrants from around the world.

The abandoned tuberculosis sanatorium is said to be one of the most haunted places in Canada.

Bacteria and algae give the salty water its bubblegum hue.

The world's largest and most outstanding marl lake regularly changes color.