Places Braecrest Wants to Go

The hero of the women's suffrage movement birth home is now a museum dedicated to her legacy.

This historic furnace was once used to produce cannonballs during the Civil War.

This extraordinary Viking artifact has traveled throughout the city.

The statue honors an adventurous seafaring cat.

A monument to the 4,114 Irish orphan girls who arrived in Australia between 1848 and 1850.

The remains of the man who founded Pennsylvania lie in an unassuming grave in the English countryside.

This 140-year-old beacon off the Florida Keys marks the wreck of a Navy ship that once roamed the Caribbean hunting pirates.

She become one of the first women to serve in the United States military by secretly dressing like a man.

The colorful, smiling concrete silos of Vancouver.

A renegade art installation in a small Vancouver park is now officially sanctioned by the City Parks Department.

Surprisingly delicious Asian-style hot dogs.

This conservatory allows a little bit of the tropics to thrive in the middle of a major Canadian city.

Housing a morgue, rare and confiscated weapons, and autopsy remains, the Vancouver police museum displays the dark side of Canada.

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

A high point in Vancouver kitsch.

This Elizabethan hedge maze is one of only six in North America.

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

This once-controversial and slightly confusing statue of Achilles was built out of captured cannons.

A tribute to the Nirvana frontman hides beneath the bridge that was the singer's beloved hangout spot.

Abandoned ships along a deserted beach feel like the set of a post-apocalyptic thriller.

A monument to the 70s rock icon stands on the road into this small Scottish town.

Time travel with sweets across history at this research-based candy store.

An early life spent in this "Old Kentucky Home" inspired the writings of North Carolina's most famous novelist.

A tribute to a vessel involved in the notorious Larne gun-running.