Places ZBRAH Wants to Go

A group of college students hauled a desk up a mountain more than 40 years ago. The notebooks inside have become a makeshift time capsule.

With its vaulted ceiling and gilded details, this University of Washington library would feel right at home inside an old palace.

On this Puerto Rican island, many abandoned naval ammunition bunkers sit open while a few have been padlocked by locals as personal storage.

The world's brightest bioluminescent bay.

This colorful gate stands as an entrance to the walled city of Old San Juan.

This tiny home was originally a narrow alleyway.

At this studio, musicians, engineers, and quite possibly a music-loving ghost carry on Puerto Rico's musical traditions.

A museum dedicated to the dead and the tools used to usher them into the afterlife.

The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.

This sprawling bookstore spans four floors and has more than a million books in stock.

A space-age 1950s pavilion on a secluded path is full of Toronto history surprises.

Canada's largest dinosaur skeleton was hidden away in storage for more than 40 years.

An abandoned 1970s theme park that has been turned into a space for waterfront walking.

This knick-knack-covered house (complete with a matching van) is a charming oddity in the middle of a modest downtown neighborhood.

A miniature representation of Canadian cities and landmarks in incredible—and sometimes hilarious—detail.

A fantastic place to see murals, and an important location in the history of Toronto's legal street art scene.

A collection of more than 12,000 shoes, displayed in a building shaped like a shoebox.

One of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World holds the world's tallest metal staircase.

This unusual structure may be on its way to becoming a cultural landmark in Toronto.

The Victorian-era greenhouse is stuffed with tropical plants, and open 365 days a year.

One of Canada's most incredible rare book collections holds hundreds of thousands of gorgeous tomes that the general public can touch.

A 98-room castle in the middle of Toronto that bankrupted a 19th century electricity multimillionaire.

A botanically themed auditorium blooms within the world’s last operating double-decker theater.

A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.