Places BOEK Wants to Go

Inside features a display of how artistic crucifixes transformed throughout the centuries.

The first botanical garden, a feather in the cap of the Grand Duke of Tuscany.

The so-called "Statue of Liberty of Los Angeles" is on a one mutant mission to keep L.A. weird.

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

Home inspired by the crystal rock formation of the Emerald Estates.

An abandoned logging settlement nestled in the woods near a popular ski town.

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

A sacred well steeped in Pagan roots on the West Coast of Ireland.

Here lies Zona, whose ghostly testimony led to her husband’s murder conviction.

The real Buddhist temple where the fictional Kwai Chang Kaine (David Carradine) trained in TV's 'Kung Fu' series.

These buildings are a poignant reminder of the thousands of horses and mules who passed through this area of the Shenandoah Valley on their way to war.

A technicolor place of worship for Elevationists.

From mining complex to industrial exhibition, this museum once played a major part in the X-Files.

An abandoned railroad tunnel is now filled with bioluminescent bugs.

This environmental engineering marvel keeps salt water from the Elizabeth River.

A lightship turned museum, outfitted with artifacts from the vessel's past as part of the U.S. Lighthouse Service.

Honoring combatants from Portsmouth who served in Cuba and the Philippines during the Spanish-American War.

Get up close and personal at this Fresnel Lens.

A museum dedicated to the musical instruments used in traditional Moroccan music.

This memorial to the Mercury Seven astronaut stands at the site of his former elementary school.

A collection of vehicles across American military history.

Home of the physician who set the leg of John Wilkes Booth after the Lincoln assassination.

Since its original beginnings as a weather observatory mountaintop, this facility played an instrumental role in gathering atmospheric data for almost 100 years.

Try the alligator at this fondue spot, which has been catering to "lovers and hedonists" since 1967.