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The Tablelands, Gros Morne National Park.

Division No. 9, Subd. A, Newfoundland and Labrador

The Tablelands

This rocky spread has been squeezed up directly from the bowels of the earth.

Big Rock Erratic

Okotoks, Alberta

Big Rock Erratic

This massive and unusual rock formation near Okotoks is the world's largest known glacial erratic.

Little Limestone Lake

Manitoba

Little Limestone Lake

The world's largest and most outstanding marl lake regularly changes color.

Aerial view of digs on Oak Island in 1931

Western Shore, Nova Scotia

Oak Island Money Pit

Hunt for buried treasure in Nova Scotia.

Mount Thor

Nunavut

Mount Thor

Earth's greatest purely vertical drop at 4,101 feet.

View of the stairs from the bottom entrance.

Hamilton, Ontario

Adventure Stairs

305 homemade stone stairs wind their way up the Hamilton escarpment.

The Spotted Lake (Kliluk)

Osoyoos, British Columbia

The Spotted Lake (Kliluk)

A sacred lake composed of over 300 separate pools of highly concentrated minerals.

Yoho National Park

Field, British Columbia

Yoho National Park

Fossils, railroads, and waterfalls!

L'Anse Aux Meadows.

Saint Lunaire-Griquet, Newfoundland and Labrador

L'Anse Aux Meadows

An ancient Viking village in North America that predates Columbus by 500 years.

Capilano Suspension Bridge

North Vancouver, British Columbia

Capilano Suspension Bridge

This expansive bridge in the Canadian wilderness was originally just built for friends.

Maze

Vancouver, British Columbia

VanDusen Garden's Elizabethan Hedge Maze

This Elizabethan hedge maze is one of only six in North America.

The Bilio-Mat

Toronto, Ontario

The Monkey's Paw

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

Kitch-iti-kipi

Manistique, Michigan

Kitch-iti-kipi

This freshwater spring fills with 10,000 gallons of water per minute.

The headwaters at Lake Itasca

Lake Itasca, Minnesota

Headwaters of the Mississippi River

At this Minnesota state park you can easily wade across the source of the mighty Mississippi.

(Flickr/Trip Deezil)

Alexandria, Minnesota

Kensington Runestone

14th century Norse artifacts in Northwestern Minnesota could have proved a Viking landing before Columbus.

Devil's Kettle.

Grand Marais, Minnesota

Devil's Kettle

Half of a waterfall goes into the river while the other half seems to disappear.

Screenshot of the wilderness surrounding Buffalo Lake, which is located within the "Zone of Death."

Island Park, Idaho

Yellowstone's Zone of Death

A legal loophole makes it possible to get away with murder within this 50-square-mile section of Yellowstone.

Kings Bowl and Great Rift from air. King's Bowl is a phreatic explosion pit 280 feet (90 m) long, 100 feet (30 m) wide, and 100 feet (30 m) deep, caused by lava meeting groundwater and producing a steam explosion 2,200 years ago. (Wikimedia Commons)

Arco, Idaho

Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

Earthquake Lake

Cameron, Montana

Earthquake Lake

A 6-mile-long lake created by an apocalyptic seismic event and the deadly chain reaction that ensued.

Going-to-the-Sun Road

West Glacier, Montana

Going-to-the-Sun Road

The only road through the heart of Glacier National Park.

Ptarmigan Tunnel

West Glacier, Montana

Ptarmigan Tunnel

This angular Dwarven tunnel cuts through a mountainside in Glacier National Park.

Vore Buffalo Jump

Sundance, Wyoming

Vore Buffalo Jump

This shallow pit was once used to send over 20,000 buffalo plummeting to their death.

Lone Star Geyser

Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

Lone Star Geyser

This Yellowstone geyser may not shoot as high as the nearby Old Faithful, but it erupts for considerably longer.

For such a unique spot, a modest sign

Moran, Wyoming

Parting of the Waters

Creek water that starts here has a 50/50 chance of ending up in the Atlantic or the Pacific.

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