Places bertshetler Wants to Go

A World War II gun battery sits at the easternmost point of North America.

Hundreds of enormous icebergs drift through this waterway every year.

A Montreal deli that was so beloved that it was allowed to circumvent their laws of language.

This public art pays homage to the baseball legend and civil rights icon and his time in Montreal.

This crumbling industrial fortress has attracted daredevils, filmmakers, and historians.

Its columns were all carved from the same white oak tree.

The biggest museum dedicated to insects in North America, one of the largest in the world.

Every year, the colorful murals of Montreal get a complete makeover.

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

Experience the magic (and science) of a camera with this giant structure that allows you to enter inside the camera.

Site of the first official transatlantic wireless communications.

This huge 12-foot concrete moose on the coast of Nova Scotia is the grandest of the sculptor's giant creatures.

On the waterfront of Sydney, Nova Scotia, a 60-ft. fiddle greets incoming ships.

The city of Halifax still bears the scars of the largest explosion prior to the atomic bomb.

The final resting place of 121 victims of the RMS Titanic, 42 of which may never be identified.

Cliffs that hold fossils, including the earliest known reptile, dating back more than 300 million years.

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

One man’s obsessive, 30-plus-year quest is behind the pies at this spot on the Lower East Side.

A celebration of capitalism in Midtown.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

From working out of his garage to the James Beard semifinals, one Tucson baker has kept his fan base—and his grains—local.