Places sophiestjacques Wants to Go

A Hawaiian stairway to heaven—that you can't climb.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

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

Historic psychiatric asylum and most-filmed location in the Great White North.

Breathtakingly blue walls shimmer inside the "Glacier Behind the Town."

The decaying adobe remains of an old homestead are just off the beaten path in Joshua Tree National Park.

The trunks of 3,000 year-old trees lurk beneath the surface of this crystal clear lake in Oregon.

The only way to visit this old resort hotel is with scuba gear.

At least 14 twice-retired ships were sunk to make a lovely rusting breakwater in Comox Harbour.

An eclectic retreat speckled with whimsical folk art.

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

An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

For divers and music lovers, the Florida Keys' Underwater Music Festival provides the best of both worlds.

A colorful hidden village of the fair folk.

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

This deceptively salty lake looks like blushing pink lemonade.

Experience park where visitors are told to expect the unexpected.

One artist's yard is full of shining, whirling kinetic sculptures that look like pure steel psychedelia.

Canada's oldest railway tunnel is illuminated in a rainbow of color as it passes under the streets of this small city.

What was once the largest mine in North America has left behind a hollow hill filled with bright blue waters.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.