Places Vic Tanner Wants to Go

This red-eyed chrome beast pays homage to the popular modern myth of West Virginia's insectoid monster.

This is one really big nut.

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

At more than 5,000 years old, these structures are among the oldest free-standing stone buildings in the world.

The eerie ruins of an isolated abandoned town nicknamed "the Widowmaker" for its deadly gold mine.

A former chicken restaurant that doubled as a speakeasy is now a quirky home full of wonderfully strange traditions.

This lone survivor of a regional franchise still slings delicious burgers and colossal servings of fries.

An effigy of Vancouver's Gastown neighorhood's namesake.

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

This circus town museum recognizes the outstanding clowns of history.

A remnant of the last Ice Age, this lake is surrounded by fascinating rock formations.

Journey through the largest remaining peat bogs in the contiguous United States to see the wilderness as it once was.

A jaw-dropping brutalist space church seems to have crash-landed in the middle of America.

An abandoned fish-shaped drive-in gets a second life as a restaurant.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

Rather than a run-of-the-mill franchise hotel, this lodging has been decked out in dinosaur decor.

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House on Haunted Hill" to a robot hunter's pad.

Take a hike to this remote, scenic tea stop in the Canadian Rockies.

This mysterious taxidermy man-beast of the seven seas resides at the Banff Trading Post.

Try the alligator at this fondue spot, which has been catering to "lovers and hedonists" since 1967.

A floating museum that was sunk by a flood and left to rot in the tides.

The oldest continuously-operating Chinese restaurant in the United States has been in business since 1911.

This bomb shelter-themed bar has barely changed since it opened.

The Magical World of George Phar Legler.