Places From the Backwoods Wants to Go

This Canadian exhibit with claims as the largest one man taxidermy collection in North America.

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.

A celebration of one of the West End’s most recognizable figures, who made helping others his life's work.

Mysterious concrete spires left on a small Canadian hill.

A statue in a Canadian zoo remembers the WWI origins of the beloved character Winnie-the-Pooh.

Canada's accused-traitor-turned-folk-hero is buried under a red stone in a ring of his own.

Icelandic settlement in Manitoba established in 1875.

This strangely specific landmark will let travelers know when they are half way there.

The ruined remains of an early hydroelectric dam.

The world's largest and most outstanding marl lake regularly changes color.

Mennes invented the tags we all place annually upon our license plates, and his story is told frankly and in full upon his headstone.

The ruins of Theodore Roosevelt's beloved ranch stand in a forgotten corner of a national park named after him.

The humble beginnings of the man known for his lavish "champagne" music.

This simple badlands butte is the highest point in North Dakota and may be the only high point to charge admission.

The oldest still-existing mosque in the United States sits in a remote prairie in North Dakota.

On the windswept Dakota plains there is a memorial to circus workers who were struck down by lightning.

The remnants of an early American attempt at missile defense.

Three legendary, living albino buffalo roaming their pastures for all to see.

A forgotten Cold War relic hidden in the outskirts of a Wisconsin city.

A 100-year-old chair with joints "cemented by nature."

A largely forgotten and touching neoclassical marble fountain overlooking a bear mound effigy.

A museum devoted to the victims and the survivors of the most catastrophic fire in American history.

An unassuming house in Wisconsin hides a transient artist’s magnum opus.

Museum with an extensive collection of Cray supercomputers and related artifacts.