Places Shermansky Wants to Go

The Icelandic Sea Monster Museum explores the area's history of aquatic cryptid sightings.

This fairy-tale, neo-Gothic church in the Azores is a world of magical realism.

This abandoned five-star hotel is now a five-star urban exploration destination.

The century-old plant starred as the villainous clown's lair in the miniseries based on Stephen King's "It."

This rare example of Vancouver's Victorian past was the home of one of the city's first bookbinders.

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

This Seattle joint serves food inside an old train car once used by FDR.

The wreckage still sits at the exact spot the plane crash-landed in 1945, carrying 1,000 pounds of explosives.

This faux-seedy Japanese arcade is made up to look like a maze of alleys straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia.

The remains of the worst maritime disaster in the history of the "Graveyard of the Pacific."

One of the most accessible undersea plane wrecks in the world.

Mysterious wreckage of a small plane has been lodged in this tree since at least 1971.

At least 14 twice-retired ships were sunk to make a lovely rusting breakwater in Comox Harbour.

This "Palace of Purification" has made many film appearances as a dark and sinister headquarters.

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

Canada's subterranean Cold War museum has doubled as a movie set.

Earth's greatest purely vertical drop at 4,101 feet.

Legend says that this short Canadian tunnel still holds the dying screams of a girl who burned alive.

Antiques shop filled with all manner of curious collectibles.

This natural sea cave hides a small wonderland of natural turquoise beauty.

An ancient Viking village in North America that predates Columbus by 500 years.