Places Willymjr Wants to Go

This tiny square mile of Canadian sand was once considered the world's smallest desert.

Home to vintage vehicles and local artifacts, this museum also houses a rare taxidermy specimen.

At a lodge and RV park is a collection of headwear that comes in at more than 11,300 and counting.

Possibly the world’s easiest Easter-egg hunt.

This small collection in the back of a shop is the only oddities museum in Saskatoon.

The unusual lighthouse looms over waves of prairies with no sea in sight.

Mysterious concrete spires left on a small Canadian hill.

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

America's smallest "national forest" has only 33 trees.

Locals believe the purity of this huge, untouched Arctic lake could be the salvation of human civilization.

The stickered marker pinpoints where the only maintained road in the United States crosses into the polar region.

This gravelly, dangerous highway is the only road in the United States that leads to the Arctic Ocean.

The northernmost truck stop in the United States.

Massive mounds of golden sand look like a desert landscape randomly plopped in an Arctic forest.

Roadside collection of 65,000 signs.

This Canadian road's nickname stuck so hard the city had to keep it.

Ice roads, deep holes and 3,500 pounds of diamonds.

The Arctic Archipelago is home to world's largest third order island: an island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island.

These hellish-looking cliffs in the Canadian Arctic have been burning for centuries.

This general store is a one-stop-shop for workers at the Prudhoe Bay oil field.

The "Gateway to the Arctic" connects Barrow's indigenous population with the sea and its traditional industry: whaling.

This greenhouse was once a hockey arena.

A mad mystery man who led Canadian mounties on a 150-mile wilderness chase is still buried with his secrets intact.

Natural earth mounds formed in the far north.