Places Added by Jo

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

A plaque on Canada's Hornby Island commemorates a fantastical creature from a fictional universe.

Modeled after a famous church in Vienna, Austria—but in Helena, Montana.

Largest island in the Baltic Sea experiences such idyllic weather that roses bloom in the middle of December.

This country market harbors goats on its roof.

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

Massive kielbasa stands 42 feet tall and weighs in at 12,000 pounds.

A face emerges from the landscape when seen from the air.

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

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

A hiking area billed as a possible home to Bigfoot.

20,000 pieces in a Frank Gehry-designed building.

Monument to a suicide protesting the Soviet invasion.

Live long and prosper in Vulcan, Alberta.

Old Danish castle immortalized in Shakespeare's Hamlet.

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

The world's largest dark sky preserve is a Canadian park established to preserve the country's last wood bison.

First mosque in Canada, second in North America.

Canadian centennial project designed to gather information about UFOs.

100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.

Blackfoot petroglyphs of southern Alberta which date back as far as 7000 B.C.

Sculpture that doubles as a time capsule so that life can survive radiation outside Chernobyl.

Roadside tribute to a staple of eastern European cuisine.

Sweet Willy, at 30 feet tall, is the world's biggest beagle.