Places Riki Wants to Go

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

City law dictates that this mountaintop cathedral containing the heart of a saint is to remain the tallest building in town.

An abandoned town centered around a paper mill powered by a large waterfall.

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

Two adjoining collections of 19th-20th century physics apparatuses and instruments.

A lake in the middle of the tundra of Quebec is said to be the purest freshwater lake on Earth.

The biggest museum dedicated to insects in North America, one of the largest in the world.

A Montreal deli that was so beloved that it was allowed to circumvent their laws of language.

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 Quebec estate is home to the elaborate gardens of a self-taught horticulturist.

Montreal's giant farmer's market is a foodie's best friend, especially in the winter months.

This railroad tunnel was once the longest in Massachusetts.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

Stolen goods adorn the organ at Old North Church.

At the supposed instruction of Ben Franklin and Socrates, a Spiritualist believer intended to birth a mechanical messiah here.

The macabre graffiti spectacle in a quarry in a Massachusetts forest reservation.

This Gothic castle was inspired by Erik the Red's Viking residence at Brattahlid in Greenland.

Like stepping into a spooky fairy-tale, this shop carries the dark ideas of artists and other makers.

Located just behind a quiet residential neighborhood, this is ground zero for the Salem witchcraft hysteria of 1692.

Behind the pink curtain, Au Bonheur du Jour, an art gallery of erotic archives.

The USSR’s Conquest of Nature lead to the domestication of many moose—no squirrel.

Siberian ghost town built by gulag prisoners.

A Marxist summer camp full of fantastical statues lies tucked away and forgotten in the forests of Moscow.