Places beaugunderson Wants to Go

The eccentric mansion of one of the most popular horror authors of modern times.

This 1.5 million-gallon water tower inspired Stephen King while he was writing "It."

This is the sewer drain that was the inspiration for the opening scene of Stephen King’s classic novel “IT”.

This eclectic natural history collection holds everything from a bit of the trans-atlantic cable to Hemingway's marlin.

This impressive working clock made of 16,000 plants changes its flowers twice a year.

Canada's oldest sugar maple has been growing since around 1500.

This seemingly cursed monument is dedicated to one of Canada's great war heroes.

The heroic sled dog of the 1925 serum run is preserved in taxidermy.

Funded by John D. Rockefeller, this is one of the earliest, and most beautiful, shopping arcades in America.

The inventor of a number of hybrid corn species is immortalized with a field of giant corn.

The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

Faces carved into the cliffs create an otherworldly walking trail.

Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.

The clock that sets them all.

The ancient tomb acts as a calendar that keeps perfect time.

Thousands of exquisitely carved stone water storage wells, hundreds of stone steps fill this exquisite medieval stepwell.

Europe’s oldest natural human mummy.

Natural catch-basin rocks covered in thousands of drawings spanning many millennia.

Location of the most powerful laser in the world, and the potential birthplace of tiny stars.

Step into the cool deep past and unknown future of who begat who.

This Arctic storage facility is a secure backup for agricultural biodiversity.

Potential high level nuclear waste storage site for the next 10,000 years and beyond.

The small cliffside monastery known as the Tiger's Nest is said to be the meditation site of an 8th-century Buddhist master.

An ancient capital city that dates back 3,000 years and harbors many surprises.