Places From the Backwoods Wants to Go

The half-mile long structure is so impressive, it even shows up on satellite images.

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

Every fall this lake mysteriously drains, like a bathtub with the plug pulled out.

The world's largest dark sky preserve is a Canadian park established to preserve the country’s wood bison population.

This massive and unusual rock formation near Okotoks is the world's largest known glacial erratic.

Huge spherical rocks in the middle of the prairie.

A surviving remnant of the thick ice mass that once mantled most of Western Canada's mountains.

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

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

A medieval village holds a very modern hotel.

An Amazonian hotel is the ultimate treehouse and provides stilt based accommodation.

Sleep amongst an abundance of art from the modern era.

This underwater old Texas hill town only resurfaces during harsh drought.

A small and quirky museum hidden inside a fence.

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

This mysterious taxidermy man-beast of the seven seas resides at the Banff Trading Post.

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

This nearly abandoned "company town" is a ghost of Puerto Rico's once-lucrative sugar industry.

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

The home of pigs, snakes, chameleons, and the alleged largest bunny in the United States.

One of the best places to see wild Colonial Spanish Mustangs in the United States.

Beautiful Gothic-inspired lighthouse stands out among the run-of-the-mill striped fare on Bodies Island.

The eerie ruins of a remote abandoned hamlet said to be founded by the survivors of a shipwreck.

There is beauty and history in the ruins of this former company town.