Places Emily Sue Wants to Go

This notorious Canadian mental institution was home to some of the first LSD experiments and origin of the word "psychedelic."

As if T-rex wasn't big enough, this Canadian monument is four times larger than the real thing.

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

Eclectic musical collection ranging from hurdy gurdies and orphicas to the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio.

Museum of stuffed gophers set up in various scenes.

The Twisted Trees of Alticane are an unnerving grove of Quaking Aspen, apparently mutated from a single source, giving them a twisted and unnatural appearance.

Blackfoot petroglyphs of southern Alberta which date back as far as 7000 B.C.

Huge spherical rocks in the middle of the prairie.

Hoodoos, naturally eroded land formations, stand 20 feet tall in the Canadian Badlands.

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

An abandoned hotel in the highlands of Bali is shrouded in stories of ghosts, curses, and corruption.

A desert settlement founded and later abandoned by Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah's Skull Valley.

An abandoned saucer-shaped monument in the Bulgarian mountains.

Tiring of digging out the door to this church for every service, it was eventually abandoned to the sands.

The 1936 Summer Olympics site is a crumbling remnant of sportsmanship and a history its host country would like to forget.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

The last inhabitants of one of the U.K.'s most remote islands were evacuated in 1930.

This abandoned fishing settlement may well be the greenest village in the world.

A small and quirky museum hidden inside a fence.

The only way to visit this old resort hotel is with scuba gear.

The ruins of the "20-year town" lay out among the mountains of Alberta.

A historic home with ties to the abolition and suffrage movements.

This statue commemorates the meeting of the most influential minds of the women’s rights movement.

Treehouse motel and treehouse-building school.