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Brooks Aqueduct

Tilley, Alberta

Brooks Aqueduct

Built to supply water to farmers in Alberta, this was once was the world's longest elevated concrete structure.

Memorial Lakes

Kovach, Alberta

Memorial Lakes

Three pristine alpine lakes named in memorial of an accident that resulted in three different plane crashes.

Pelican Island

Ma-Me-O Beach, Alberta

Pelican Island

Hundreds of pelicans call this island no larger than a car their home during the summer months.

Lamps in the museum's collection

Donalda, Alberta

Donalda Lamp Museum

The museum is home to four times as many lamps as there are people in town.

Patricia Hotel and Water Hole

Patricia, Alberta

Patricia Hotel and Water Hole

Kitschy steak joint where customers can cook their own meat over an eternal flame.

The World's Largest Sausage

Mundare, Alberta

The World's Largest Sausage

Massive kielbasa stands 42 feet tall and weighs in at 12,000 pounds.

The Vegreville Pysanka

Vegreville, Alberta

The Vegreville Pysanka

Possibly the world’s easiest Easter-egg hunt.

Neon Sign Museum west side of 104 St on TELUS Building

Edmonton, Alberta

Neon Sign Museum

An outdoor installation of 20 vintage signs that once hung in front of businesses throughout town.

Operation Habbakuk at Patricia Lake

Jasper, Alberta

Operation Habbakuk at Patricia Lake

The site of a strange super top-secret military experiment during WWII on a remote Canadian lake.

Giant Perogy

Glendon, Alberta

Giant Perogy

Roadside tribute to a staple of eastern European cuisine.

Three wolfdogs being fed

Cochrane, Alberta

Yamnuska Wolfdog Sanctuary

A rescue facility that caters specifically to wolf-dog hybrids, and educates about these unique animals.

Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump

Fort Macleod, Alberta

Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump

Historic site where Native American hunters once trapped and killed buffalo.

When the lake is empty

Improvement District No. 12, Alberta

Medicine Lake

Every fall this lake mysteriously drains, like a bathtub with the plug pulled out.

Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park

Aden, Alberta

Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park

Blackfoot petroglyphs of southern Alberta which date back as far as 7000 B.C.

The beaver dam as viewed from a helicopter.

Improvement District No. 24, Alberta

World's Largest Beaver Dam

The half-mile long structure is so impressive, it even shows up on satellite images.

Red Rock Coulee

Orion, Alberta

Red Rock Coulee

Huge spherical rocks in the middle of the prairie.

Frozen bubbles in the ice of Lake Abraham.

Alberta

Lake Abraham

The frozen bubbles that form on the icy surface of this Canadian lake contain enough methane to create a small explosion.

Gopher Hole Museum

Torrington, Alberta

Gopher Hole Museum

Museum of stuffed gophers set up in various scenes.

Sunnyslope Shelter

Linden, Alberta

Sunnyslope Shelter

Sitting empty in a lonely Canadian field is a century-old stone bunker sometimes called "One Man's Castle."

Tunnel Entrance

Kananaskis, Alberta

The Vault

What was to be the world's most secure Cold War document vault ended up as just a few shallow caves.

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