Places Ciaran Wants to Go

One of Canada's most incredible rare book collections holds hundreds of thousands of gorgeous tomes that the general public can touch.

A 98-room castle in the middle of Toronto that bankrupted a 19th century electricity multimillionaire.

A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.

A botanically themed auditorium blooms within the world’s last operating double-decker theater.

The enchanting archway is the only surviving portal into Dublin’s lost medieval wall.

This small-town pizzeria won the Hollywood lottery.

This last stalwart of the now-forgotten feminist restaurant movement served food in an activist atmosphere since 1977.

A once-booming railroad left abandoned next to the Quinnipiac River marshes now intersects with a hiking trail.

This Connecticut video store has a vast and varied archive that contains everything from 'Koyaanisqatsi' to 'The King's Speech.'

The cave where two British judges hid in exile after sentencing the king to death.

A famed data visualizer's personal sculpture garden is a landscape of modern and megalithic wonders.

The haunting peak of an old church is all that remains of a drowned Brazilian city.

These termites have an large and deadly abode—impressive by day, dazzling by night.

Part of one of the largest flooded cavities on the planet, and littered with prehistoric animal bones.

You feel like you're in a forest, but you're actually walking amidst the branches and trunks of a single giant tree.

Beautiful public park off the beaten path and away from tourists.

After millennia of erosion by sand and churning water this Brazilian valley now looks like a lunar fantasy.

Crumbling remnant of Rio's colonial past tucked behind Corcovado mountain in the neighborhood of Cosme Velho.

This Brazilian Lady Liberty is one of the few replicas that was actually made by the original designer.

This Brazilian palace island was once the site of the last grand ball before revolution.

A mysterious stone embedded at the base of a historic Boston building.

A museum dedicated to antique toys, collectibles, and nostalgia.

Panoramic views of the city of New Haven and the Long Island Sound, with a side of history.

The world's largest indoor go-kart racetrack is hiding in Connecticut.