Places Skurkey Wants to Go

One of the largest cat sanctuaries in North America is considered a "Club Med" for felines.

Hauntingly beautiful totem poles left by the Haida.

Greenery cloaks this serene sculpture inspired by the famous Lost Gardens of Heligan.

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.

The remains of a Canadian train crash are now mouldering beneath layers of rust and graffiti.

Historic psychiatric asylum and most-filmed location in the Great White North.

An old world fairytale-land with over 350 fairy folk figurines hidden amongst 800 year old cedars.

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

Traditional 15th century Chinese garden in the middle of Vancouver.

This giant meditative chakra sits peacefully in the Flathead Valley of western Montana.

Rising out of miles of farmland, these buttes are sometimes called the world's smallest mountain range.

A French library that makes sure its love of books is writ large... giant in fact.

An illuminated manuscript comprising the life's work of a lone monk, inexplicably decorated with a portrait of Satan himself.

A giant gorilla made of used car tires used to sit sentinel over a Helsinki college campus.

The tiny, studious rodents greet visitors to the National Archives of Finland.

Villas that once served as playgrounds for the rich now fall away in decay.

This Ukraine alleyway has become its own little island of forgotten things.

The ruins of an abandoned church loom within a picturesque Ukranian village.

When you've got to go, you've got to go.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

Ugly 18th-century dwarf statues living in a perfectly landscaped Austrian garden.

Double spiral staircases are not unheard of, but they are very rare.

Home of controversial poet priest who penned the words for the Austrian national anthem used in the 1930s.

Eight naturally mummified bodies in glass coffins are housed in an underground crypt.