Places mariaj5366 Wants to Go

A sprawling collection of over 106,000 toys from around the world.

Thousands of mounted insects, and some live ones, hide within an otherwise ordinary shopping mall.

The final resting place of the living embodiment of the famous Forest Service symbol.

Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.

The fictional star of "Breaking Bad" is memorialized with a real-life gravestone in his hometown.

An ode to the history of telephones inside a telephone building.

One of the world’s most powerful corporations was established on a random Albuquerque street corner.

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

The most powerful laboratory radiation source in the world pulses with 1,000 times the electricity of a lightning bolt.

An out-of-the-way state park in Oregon that features both a picturesque waterfall and the ruins of a hydropower plant.

This rare, carefully curated collection showcases the history of neon inside a grandiose Elks lodge.

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

The oldest natural history museum in western Canada houses more than 5,000 vintage botanical and zoological specimens.

The natural hot spring that was integral to the creation of Canada's first national park.

Since its original beginnings as a weather observatory mountaintop, this facility played an instrumental role in gathering atmospheric data for almost 100 years.

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

This expansive bridge in the Canadian wilderness was originally just built for friends.

This Elizabethan hedge maze is one of only six in North America.

This conservatory allows a little bit of the tropics to thrive in the middle of a major Canadian city.

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

This Art Deco masterpiece has stood in for some of the most famous buildings in comic book history.

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

This quirky piece of naval artillery has been deafening Canadians for over a century.