Places noel Wants to Go

Historic site where Native American hunters once trapped and killed buffalo.

The ruins of Vancouver's abandoned heritage railway.

From mining complex to industrial exhibition, this museum once played a major part in the X-Files.

This rare example of Vancouver's Victorian past was the home of one of the city's first bookbinders.

A unique spiral staircase that doesn't quite make it up to the top floor.

One of the largest cat sanctuaries in North America is considered a "Club Med" for felines.

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

A historic hotel with many stories of haunted activity.

Deep into the lower floors of Pike Place, find a date with fowl fate.

An outsider art duo's yard has been turned into a whimsical public gallery.

A house filled to the brim with oddities and curiosities.

Where else would a linchpin of post-colonial Native American cuisine anchor the menu but a museum?

An American city stranded at the tip of a Canadian peninsula where strict adherence to the "49th parallel rule" became problematic.

America's smallest "national forest" has only 33 trees.

This junkyard made over as a theme park is the "Most Alaskan place in Alaska."

The now-serene site of the largest earthquake ever recorded in North America.

This small city where almost everyone lives in the same building can only be reached via North America's longest tunnel.

A huge musical sculpture and other art installations on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grounds.

Definitely not a clown bar.

The only house in Oregon designed by the famous architect, Frank Lloyd Wright.

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

The only Native American museum along the Oregon Trail, run by the peoples who have lived on the land for generations.

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

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