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This small collection in the back of a shop is the only oddities museum in Saskatoon.

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

Two provinces and two territories touch borders deep in the middle of the wilderness.

The rusting hulk of a 250-foot-long merchant vessel remains where she grounded on the shore of Hudson Bay.

A crash site in the heart of polar bear territory has become a beloved local landmark.

Dedicated to the inventor of the paint roller.

This colossal reptile celebrates the history of the now-defunct Canadian Turtle Derby.

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

A massive, 76-foot-high version of a Van Gogh painting in Canada’s sunflower capital.

The only fully operational windmill in Canada.

This strangely specific landmark will let travelers know when they are half way there.

This highly specific museum documents the electrical history of Manitoba.

Canada's accused-traitor-turned-folk-hero is buried under a red stone in a ring of his own.

The world’s first museum dedicated to exploring human rights unleashed a wave of controversy.

The intense competition of the 19th-century fur trading industry played out at this fort in Western Canada.

A statue in a Canadian zoo remembers the WWI origins of the beloved character Winnie-the-Pooh.

Mysterious concrete spires left on a small Canadian hill.

One of Canada's oldest collections of stone fur trading buildings.

Icelandic settlement in Manitoba established in 1875.

America's silhouette includes 100 square miles of wilderness jutting into Canada thanks to an old mapmaking error.

A floating McDonald's built for Expo '86 is now a derelict relic on Burrard Inlet.

An American city stranded at the tip of a Canadian peninsula where strict adherence to the "49th parallel rule" became problematic.

A renegade art installation in a small Vancouver park is now officially sanctioned by the City Parks Department.

Housing a morgue, rare and confiscated weapons, and autopsy remains, the Vancouver police museum displays the dark side of Canada.