Newfoundland and Labrador
Iceberg Alley
Hundreds of enormous icebergs drift through this waterway every year.
Places I've been
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Newfoundland and Labrador
Hundreds of enormous icebergs drift through this waterway every year.
Fort Macleod, Alberta
Historic site where Native American hunters once trapped and killed buffalo.
Jasper, Alberta
This natural wonder is disappearing at an alarming rate.
Division No. 9, Subd. A, Newfoundland and Labrador
This rocky spread has been squeezed up directly from the bowels of the earth.
Drumheller, Alberta
As if T-rex wasn't big enough, this Canadian monument is four times larger than the real thing.
Improvement District No. 12, Alberta
Every fall this lake mysteriously drains, like a bathtub with the plug pulled out.
Alberta
A surviving remnant of the thick ice mass that once mantled most of Western Canada's mountains.
Saint Lunaire-Griquet, Newfoundland and Labrador
An ancient Viking village in North America that predates Columbus by 500 years.
Elliston, Newfoundland and Labrador
This small Newfoundland town has declared itself the “Root Cellar Capital of the World.”
St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador
The first transatlantic wireless signal was received at this 17th-century fort.
Stoneville, Newfoundland and Labrador
The last remains of the extinct Beothuk people native to the island of Newfoundland.
Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador
This historic lighthouse has been reincarnated as the perfect picnic place.
Los Angeles, California
This symbol of peace is appropriately positioned overlooking the Pacific Ocean.
Pacifica, California
Another of California's unused Cold War missile defense complexes has become a graffiti gallery.
Inverness, California
The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.
Point Arena, California
The mysterious round rocks of Schooner Gulch.
Inyo County, California
The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.
Lee Vining, California
Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.
San Francisco, California
A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.
Los Angeles, California
These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.
San Francisco, California
The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.
Los Angeles, California
Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.
San Francisco, California
Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.
Los Angeles, California
Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.