Places ianneo Wants to Go

What happens when a sculptor has to find a way around a 100-year-old copyright.

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

The venerated body of a 12th century saint is celebrated each year with the 'Race of the Candles.'

The eerie ruins of this feudal fortress witnessed the execution of 60 conspirators in 1387.

These tombs were built into the side of a mountain so that ancient angels could reach the dead.

This 13th-century monastery chiseled into the side of a mountain is equipped with a bridge that can be lifted to protect against raids.

An autonomous republic of Orthodox monks.

A minotaur, a labyrinth, and a dubious restoration pull in visitors from around the world.

The ruins of an abandoned medieval city where the last Byzantine emperor was crowned.

The closest thing to Mars on Earth.

You don't have to visit the deep blue sea to see these majestic creatures swimming wild and free.

Hundreds of enormous icebergs drift through this waterway every year.

The colorful, smiling concrete silos of Vancouver.

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

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

The frozen bubbles that form on the icy surface of this Canadian lake contain enough methane to create a small explosion.

A lake in the middle of the tundra of Quebec is said to be the purest freshwater lake on Earth.

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

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

The stunning remnants of this wreck emerge from an otherworldly backdrop of rainforests.

The highest tides in the world come in and out here twice a day, allowing you to essentially walk along the ocean floor.

A pixel art killer whale is frozen mid-leap in this Vancouver square.

Little island known for its massive beachfront "flowerpot" pillars.

While these wooden totems bear a striking resemblance to First Nations artwork of British Columbia, their actual origins lay on the opposite side of the Pacific Ocean.