Places michellecreeley Wants to Go

Locals transformed this Canadian evergreen into a secret hangout with spectacular views of Vancouver's skyline.

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.

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.

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

Sleep snuggled in a sphere suspended atop the forest canopy of Vancouver Island.

This natural wonder is disappearing at an alarming rate.

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

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

Hoodoos, naturally eroded land formations, stand 20 feet tall in the Canadian Badlands.

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

An old drug store full of mortars and pestles, pill-making machines, and medicines reputed to cure most any illness.

This rocky spread has been squeezed up directly from the bowels of the earth.

An ancient Viking village in North America that predates Columbus by 500 years.

This greenhouse was once a hockey arena.

Natural earth mounds formed in the far north.

Explore the ruins of war and maritime history along this gorgeously ferocious North Atlantic seascape.

Twice a day, the water of the Petitcodiac River flows upstream in a surfable wave.

This off-limits room in the National Library of France is home to a system of pneumatic tubes, once used to bring books to readers.

This Paris art space celebrates the creativity and ingenuity that springs from abject poverty, especially in Africa.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

This Parisian fountain is a little bit fantasy and a little bit nightclub.

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.