Places howiescher Wants to Go

This 20-foot-tall sculpture is in honor of the herd of bighorn sheep that call Radium Hot Springs home.

Fossils, railroads, and waterfalls!

Take a hike to this remote, scenic tea stop in the Canadian Rockies.

Though many were skeptical at first, these animal-specific routes across the Trans-Canada Highway have been a major conservation success.

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

The natural hot spring that was integral to the creation of Canada's first national park.

The granite head appears to be deep in thought and half buried in the ground.

A stone troll guards the hike that leads to this waterfall.

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

The New Central Library is a masterpiece of contemporary architecture in the midst of downtown Calgary.

With its webbed walls and bright red coloring, Calgary's iconic bridge looks like a finger trap puzzle stretched across the river.

The original location of Vollis Simpson’s Whirligigs.

This sweet Southern elixir comes from what may be the oldest grape vine in North America.

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 perfect place to take a family of giants for a beach vacation.

Down the road from where the Wright brothers lifted off is another flight tribute practically hidden from sight in the woods.

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

Perhaps the oldest vine in North America, this sprawling plant helps make a sweet wine.

So many migrating birds roost on the bridge, it has a special summer speed limit.

The only known Futuro house in North Carolina sits along a stretch of desolate highway on the Outer Banks.  .

The time thousands of bags of chips washed ashore in the Outer Banks is memorialized in a local museum.

The rotting skeleton of a shoreside fun fair that was destroyed by fire and storms still haunts the Brighton ocean view.

A vintage penny arcade hidden in the back of a fun fair-themed bar.