Places LukeLW Wants to Go

The world’s highest ski resort was deserted after an 18,000-year-old glacier melted away.

The soaring gondola lines form the longest aerial cable car system in the world.

This likeness of the famous revolutionary is entirely made of recycled scraps of metal.

On the outskirts of a desert trading village high on the Andean plain, steel giants have been destroyed by salt winds.

A seemingly endless landscape of pure salt stretches far across Bolivia.

305 homemade stone stairs wind their way up the Hamilton escarpment.

An abandoned skate park located in the middle of the wilderness.

This colorful creation wasn't always a welcome part of Toronto's Moccasin Trail Park.

A space-age 1950s pavilion on a secluded path is full of Toronto history surprises.

Smallest house in Toronto sits on a lot meant to be just wide enough for cars to drive through.

This unusual structure may be on its way to becoming a cultural landmark in Toronto.

This urban oasis is a marvelous meld of music and landscape architecture.

A monument to the 17,000 Chinese who worked and died to build Canada's Pacific Railway.

A fantastic place to see murals, and an important location in the history of Toronto's legal street art scene.

These colorful French islands spent a stint bootlegging booze during American Prohibition.

A World War II gun battery sits at the easternmost point of North America.

A decaying, yet still functioning, work of communist architecture.

A collection of art from Bulgaria's time as a communist state.

"Unity, Creativity, Beauty."

This massive stone and steel monument remembers a century-old battle that cost thousands of lives and nearly destroyed the city.

This once-grandiose behemoth of a monument from the socialist era now sits quiet and closed up.

This massive concrete sculpture is said to be the heaviest communist monument on Earth.

An abandoned saucer-shaped monument in the Bulgarian mountains.

These little-known sands dunes are a geological anomaly in Saskatchewan's southern prairies.