Places baxterpop Wants to Go

A complicated, forgotten beacon of hope for thousands of immigrants, "Canada's Emerald Isle" lies in ruin.

This artful dam holds back a crater-made reservoir that can be seen from space.

A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.

One of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World holds the world's tallest metal staircase.

A beautiful, creepy 19th-century castle stands incongruously in rural Vermont.

Trinkets and toys lovingly handmade by maximum security prisoners.

This handsome giant is said to mark the birthplace of the mythical woodsman and even had a cameo in a Stephen King novel.

Toy museum in a former tavern is the expression of one man's life pursuit of the aesthetic power of cartoon imagery.

The third version of this tall sailing ship sits, rusted and burnt, in Lake Ontario.

A school teacher's massive and terrifying self-built castle.

This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.

A collection of more than 12,000 shoes, displayed in a building shaped like a shoebox.

The tea room that pushed the boundaries of adorable straight into... we can't find the words.

This shrine to McDonalds' most iconic sandwich holds a 14-foot tall burger.

Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

This structure among the trees was the result of divine inspiration.

This shop for all your super spy needs hides an educational secret.

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

A curious friendship between two inanimate ladies.

A library and shop devoted to the body, mortality, and bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories

Three and a half miles of cliffs, rocky beaches, Gilded Age mansions and 40 Steps to nowhere in particular.

Holding the most bodies of any cemetery in the United States.

An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.