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One of Canada's premier radio observatories sits in a radio-quiet valley outside Penticton.

Honoring the adaptive athlete's Marathon of Hope.

Home to an octopus slide and a humorous playground-sized cryptid.

This is where all crows in the surrounding region come to roost from the entire Lower Mainland of Vancouver.

This little-known telescope was the world’s second largest when it was built in 1935.

St. Claude, Manitoba, commemorates its first settlers with a giant tobacco smoking pipe monument.

The site of the fossilized remains of some of Earth’s earliest primitive, microbial life forms.

Guelph’s hidden tribute to environmental action.

Dedicated to the inventor of the paint roller.

This Novia Scotia museum showcases local history through miniature models built by one man.

A sea glass gold mine on Newfoundland’s rugged coast.

A movie theater, film museum, and cat sanctuary all in one.

Canada’s longest cave system is home to creatures found nowhere else on the planet, as well as rare cave pearls.

This little theatre at the end of the Urban Gallery in the Manitoba Museum plays silent films from stars who performed in Winnipeg.

A giant metal mosquito prepares to feast.

This bullfrog grew to an alleged weight of 42 pounds on a diet of whiskey, baked beans, and June bugs.

A chocolatier with a quaint museum showcasing the history of chocolate.

This community museum preserves the largest collection of Coal Age fossil plants in Maritimes.

This 30-foot-high statue of Christ was intended to be part of a prehistoric theme park.

This pond in Victoria Park is rumored to be bottomless, one of several legends that surround it.

Newfoundland's last remaining granite lighthouse.

This Canadian city is actually two-in-one, even if they only respect the timezone of one side.

A former church transformed into a public library.

The haunting ruins of a once-holy church now stand as a forgotten relic of Montreal’s past.