Places SeeingCoolPlaces Wants to Go

Bananas are often left for the first monkey America ever recovered alive after being launched into space.

People from around the world visit the shrine of Japan’s legendarily loyal dog.

The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.

The historic home still shows the scars from a little run-in with the British in 1813.

A cannonball from Union forces battling John Hunt Morgan made this church a permanent home.

This cannonball stands as a reminder of the final act of a fleeting governor amidst a revolution.

Because sometimes the most efficient route from A to B isn't a straight line.

This uninhabited island in Maine is home to various works of art left by visitors over the years.

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

A small Canadian town founded as a refuge for Loyalists following American Independence.

A complicated, forgotten beacon of hope for thousands of immigrants, "Canada's Emerald Isle" lies in ruin.

A monument marks the beginning of the longest north-south road in the United States.

This public art pays homage to the baseball legend and civil rights icon and his time in Montreal.

When World War II came to Canada, Fort Péninsule was part of the first line of defense for Allied shipping convoys.

The roofless ruins of a church surrounded by acres of bucolic farmland.

This crumbling industrial fortress has attracted daredevils, filmmakers, and historians.

The only town in the world with two exclamation points in its name.

A tiny, picturesque island, where cows and wild horses wander around the houses.

An ever-changing gathering of crude wooden figures haunts the St. Lawrence River.

Train tunnel running underneath Quebec City.

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

This 1967 experiment in modular architecture was designed to be a new model for urban living.

A large statue of Pope Gregory XIII in Bologna was disguised as Saint Petronius to avoid destruction.

The wreckage of a tragic plane crash is on display at this museum devoted to a famous Italian conspiracy.