Places Woody57 Wants to Go

The Hveragerði fissure runs through this unassuming shopping center.

Europe’s most powerful hot spring supplies the surrounding region with hot water.

Internet rumors, often involving Icelandic singer Björk, have abounded regarding this isolated outcrop of rock.

Iceland: home to volcanoes, waterfalls and, apparently, Santa?

Three million year old fossils are exposed for all to see on this Icelandic shore.

A lonely beacon, precariously perched atop a remote sliver of rock.

This wrecked airplane has been sitting on a black sand beach since the 1970s.

The Icelandic Sea Monster Museum explores the area's history of aquatic cryptid sightings.

Canada's subterranean Cold War museum has doubled as a movie set.

Little remains of the once flourishing Asbestos' asbestos mine.

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

All the anchors found in this park were taken from the nearby river.

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

More than 50,000 gannets claim the cliffs of Bonaventure Island.

A reconstituted ancestral village of the Huron-Wendat Nation.

This artful dam holds back a crater-made reservoir that can be seen from space.

A scenic overlook of a pit mine hundreds of meters deep filled with blue water.

A patch of contaminated land reclaimed as a scrappy sculptural oasis.

A swaggering, monumental souvenir of the most extravagant party Montreal’s ever thrown.

This hidden park hosts a rogue’s gallery of eccentric architectural obelisks.

The vaulted ceiling is home to a scurry of “squirrelgoyles.”

Canada's largest graveyard boasts a lot of noteworthy artifacts as well as its own computerized mapping service.

Every year, the colorful murals of Montreal get a complete makeover.

Train tunnel running underneath Quebec City.