Places aember Wants to Go

An off-the-beaten path cave with an underground lake.

The largest open-pit gold mine in Canada.

It's 2 billion years old!

Louise Bourgeois' 30-foot-tall steel spider sculpture.

One of Mother Nature’s geological gems, home to many prehistoric fossils.

This Niagara Falls tourist trap is a world bright with neon and curiosities that will inspire love, hate, or a mixture of both.

Canada's oldest railway tunnel is illuminated in a rainbow of color as it passes under the streets of this small city.

This colorful creation wasn't always a welcome part of Toronto's Moccasin Trail Park.

These strikingly barren, rolling red hills were caused by bad farming practices.

An abandoned Victorian-era amusement park is rusting away amidst luxury houses.

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

This natural sea cave hides a small wonderland of natural turquoise beauty.

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

Possibly the world's largest coin stands just outside of a Canadian science center.

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

This Toronto garden collects stares and tchotchkes in equal measure.

Smallest house in Toronto sits on a lot meant to be just wide enough for cars to drive through.

One of Canada's oldest museums, the beautiful Redpath has been serving up Natural History and Ethnography since 1882.

This chilly Canadian hotel has a four-month lifespan due to the unusual material it's made of.

This Quebec estate is home to the elaborate gardens of a self-taught horticulturist.

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

Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.

A reconstituted ancestral village of the Huron-Wendat Nation.

This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.