Places hrgoldman3 Wants to Go

The most northerly active sand dunes in the world have some very rare botanical residents.

Ice roads, deep holes and 3,500 pounds of diamonds.

This Canadian road's nickname stuck so hard the city had to keep it.

Cold War missile site at high alert during the Cuban Missile Crisis, now a post-apocalyptic backdrop.

Four-story concrete hotel never opened to customers.

This often-overlooked canyon dazzles and intrigues with its many layers of colors, shapes and odd formations.

A phone booth crammed with books marks the path to a house-turned-bookstore in Alaska.

The "Gateway to the Arctic" connects Barrow's indigenous population with the sea and its traditional industry: whaling.

Massive mounds of golden sand look like a desert landscape randomly plopped in an Arctic forest.

This ghostly Alaska village still clings to a steep cliffside despite having been abandoned for over 50 years.

A giant poultry statue immortalizes one of Alaska's more humorous town names.

A historic signpost to world cities on the top of a barren mining hill in the Yukon.

The resilient spirit of this remote mining town burns bright in its eclectic memorabilia.

A forlorn fishing village on the coast of Labrador, full of shipwrecks and Spanish gold.

America's silhouette includes 100 square miles of wilderness jutting into Canada thanks to an old mapmaking error.

A sacred Ojibwe site covered in pictographs next to Lake Superior.

This giant roadside goose has been hailing travelers into a small Ontario town for over 50 years.

Stunning views over Ontario's old-growth pine forests.

The largest open-pit gold mine in Canada.

It's 2 billion years old!

Artistic cabins actually grow deep in the Canadian wilderness.

A lake formed in the basin of a massive impact crater takes the shape of an unbroken ring when viewed from above.

Twice a day, the water of the Petitcodiac River flows upstream in a surfable wave.

Alongside a scenic road are the remains of crumbling World War II gun emplacement.