Places savij Wants to Go

A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.

Defying all odds, this lonely little tree found a home on a log sticking out of a Canadian lake.

This Art Deco masterpiece has stood in for some of the most famous buildings in comic book history.

This 1967 experiment in modular architecture was designed to be a new model for urban living.

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

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

This notorious Canadian mental institution was home to some of the first LSD experiments and origin of the word "psychedelic."

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

The giantess welcomes travelers to a small Saskatchewan town with a traditional Slavic greeting of bread and salt.

A celebration of one of the West End’s most recognizable figures, who made helping others his life's work.

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

The largest single concentration of harmless garter snakes in the world is a writhing Canadian serpent orgy.

Antiques shop filled with all manner of curious collectibles.

A crumbling cliffside ruin hidden in the woods.

A unique spiral staircase that doesn't quite make it up to the top floor.

This hauntingly stark structure is a relic of an industrial past.

One of the largest cat sanctuaries in North America is considered a "Club Med" for felines.

Beautiful mostly-abandoned town only accessible by sea-worthy boat or plane.

Mysterious wreckage of a small plane has been lodged in this tree since at least 1971.

Greenery cloaks this serene sculpture inspired by the famous Lost Gardens of Heligan.

The collection of signage remembers the midcentury pushback against the new neon light.

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

The wreckage still sits at the exact spot the plane crash-landed in 1945, carrying 1,000 pounds of explosives.

The stunning remnants of this wreck emerge from an otherworldly backdrop of rainforests.