Places prairiequeer Wants to Go

This faux-seedy Japanese arcade is made up to look like a maze of alleys straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

A "Titanic" superfan changed his name to Jack and set up this strange shrine to the blockbuster, complete with Korean food and Tarot readings.

The oddly shaped, steam-spewing building is now an art studio and gallery.

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.

Home to a full cast of the largest woolly mammoth ever recovered in North America. 

This Italianate house was the childhood home of the prominent Canadian painter, Emily Carr.

A Victorian cemetery hidden along a trucking route is all that remains of a 19th century village.

A quarter mile off the coastal tip of Maine you'll find the "Beloved Island" of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

A colorful collection of scavenged glass bells decorates this Canadian ranch.

The unusual lighthouse looms over waves of prairies with no sea in sight.

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

A flying saucer has landed for good in the middle of a tiny Canadian town.

A chaotic collection of maritime artifacts, art, and really whatever else happens to be around.

The largest axe on the planet contains a time capsule that seems like it may never be discovered.

Two thirds of this Montreal neon icon has survived to flash another day.

This tiny square mile of Canadian sand was once considered the world's smallest desert.

The world's largest moose statue is located (where else?) in Canada.

A community-run museum invites visitors to explore Jewish communities before and after the Holocaust.

How would you like to dine in the same room where some of the Titanic's victims were embalmed?

This haunted corpse of a drive-in is now a graffiti-covered ruin.

This oddly named town refuses to change its phallic moniker.

The collection of signage remembers the midcentury pushback against the new neon light.