Places Mike Walker Wants to Go

Pause in an abandoned hydroelectric station, now overrun with wildlife, to consider a thought-provoking poem.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

These curious caverns have been home to mushrooms, gangsters, and disco.

This large midwestern cavern features impressive rock formations and an underground waterfall.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

A grove of colossal man-made flowers built to collect the sun's rays.

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

America's greatest forgotten garden and the former stomping grounds of Son of Sam.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

An ancient glacial pothole waterfall in the heart of the Green Mountains.

This charming woodland trail is peppered with poetry.

Small rustic cabin nested in the mountains of Killington, Vermont.

This New England covered bridge is home to the tale of a jilted lover known to haunt the area.

These mysterious petroglyphs in Vermont reflect a troubled history in the treatment of Native American culture.

This former prison now houses a lovely library devoted to Quebec's oft-maligned English-speaking history.

Artistic cabins actually grow deep in the Canadian wilderness.

The remains of a paranoid inventor's hidden workshop lie in beautiful ruins amidst a Canadian park.

This three-chambered cave is the only protected natural bat hibernaculum in Quebec.

This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.

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

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

Sculptures, jams, and the wild west collide at this folksy retreat.