Places Skurkey Wants to Go

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

The world's largest dark sky preserve is a Canadian park established to preserve the country's last wood bison.

The ruins of the "20-year town" lay out among the mountains of Alberta.

The whimsical legacy of a Canadian artist.

Outsider art meets hard scrabble mountain life in this woodcarver's home/art piece.

An eclectic retreat speckled with whimsical folk art.

This small beach park is littered with a collection of unique driftwood sculptures.

After spending more than a century on the ocean floor, this shipwrecked column is finally resting atop solid ground.

North America's first Indigenous-owned winery is located within Canada's only desert-like ecosystem.

A colorful collection of scavenged glass bells decorates this Canadian ranch.

This towering totem holds the title for the tallest in the world but only according to some.

A colorful hidden village of the fair folk.

The oldest building in Vancouver's Chinatown is now home to one of Canada’s largest contemporary art collections.

Saved by a logger, this Douglas fir is one of the last great old-growth trees in Canada.

This quirky countryside store is known for the goats that hang out and eat the grass on its roof.

This vast, pristine wilderness is home to a rare subspecies of black bear.

An abandoned logging settlement nestled in the woods near a popular ski town.

Unlike many reclaimed, abandoned mines, this Canadian cave system is still just a dangerous maze.

Thousand-year-old trees tower within one of the world's only inland temperate rainforests.

Every four years, millions of salmon fill a river so densely that its waters appear deep crimson.

A crumbling cliffside ruin hidden in the woods.

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

A famous hotel houses an impression collection of mini dioramas and giant doll houses.

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