Places msfortune Wants to Go

With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.

A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

Over 50 whirling pools left behind from the glacial age.

Taking the 3D art experience far beyond blue and red glasses.

The oldest tofu shop in the United States is a firm favorite with locals.

The park preserves a single, rare species of carnivorous plant that spells doom for unsuspecting insects.

A vertically floating hemlock controls the waves and weather at Crater Lake.

This perfectly preserved Chinese medicine shop was untouched for decades before being reopened as a museum.

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

The largest single concentration of harmless garter snakes in the world is a writhing Canadian serpent orgy.

Hundreds of enormous icebergs drift through this waterway every year.

Huge spherical rocks in the middle of the prairie.

This Hindu temple is an architectural marvel designed and built according to ancient Indian principles.

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

A unique collection of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and everything in-between.

The Victorian-era greenhouse is stuffed with tropical plants, and open 365 days a year.

Traditional 15th century Chinese garden in the middle of Vancouver.

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

A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.

Volcanic stone sentinels stand watch at a Korean Bell Garden in Virginia.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.