Places Laura Andersen Wants to Go

This chilly Canadian hotel has a four-month lifespan due to the unusual material it's made of.

One of Canada's oldest museums, the beautiful Redpath has been serving up Natural History and Ethnography since 1882.

This Quebec estate is home to the elaborate gardens of a self-taught horticulturist.

A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.

This 1967 experiment in modular architecture was designed to be a new model for urban living.

Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.

This shack nestled in a 120-acre forest of maple trees in Mont-Rigaud is a wonderland of sugary syrup.

The skyline of Montreal includes the silhouette of an unexpected fruit-shaped Canadian staple.

The Jewish diaspora shares a menu at this museum café.

Pagan monument converted to Christianity with the population.

"Portugal's Stonehenge" is made up of nut-like stones aligned with the heavens.

The cathedral of a controversial, conservative, schismatic sect that declared the Catholic Church heretical and founded its own succession of popes.

More than 70 detailed dioramas—including some rather nontraditional ones—fill this charming museum.

Mysterious face-like images that appeared within an Andalusian house are surrounded by legends of the paranormal.

Considered the birthplace of the Copper Age and Bronze Age, the river is tinted red from 5,000 years of mining.

This amended headstone marks the grave of a participant in one of the most successful military deceptions of all time.

Holding the current title of "biggest chair in the world," it stands with little fanfare in Lucena, Spain.

A micro-communist utopia in Spain with no police, no mortgages and full employment.

The defensive tower was built centuries ago to warn locals of Berber pirate attacks.

The world's most elegant power lines.

This small Spanish village still pays homage to the Spaghetti Western films that were shot there in the 1960s.

This abandoned gold mine found a second life as a post-apocalyptic film set.

The current seat of the Parliament of Andalusia was once the epicenter of the Great Plague of Seville.

An eerie collection of the surviving structures from a past celebration of the future.