Palmer, Alaska
Castle House
The only house built with a turret, crenellations, and a moat in Palmer, Alaska.
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Palmer, Alaska
The only house built with a turret, crenellations, and a moat in Palmer, Alaska.
Pachena Beach, British Columbia
The remains of the worst maritime disaster in the history of the "Graveyard of the Pacific."
Squamish, British Columbia
As you overlook the Howe Sound and the town of Squamish, your breath will be taken away by its beauty or the stairs... probably all the stairs.
Saskatchewan
The most northerly active sand dunes in the world have some very rare botanical residents.
Coombs, British Columbia
This quirky countryside store is known for the goats that hang out and eat the grass on its roof.
Qualicum Beach, British Columbia
This country market harbors goats on its roof.
Qualicum Beach, British Columbia
An eclectic retreat speckled with whimsical folk art.
Egmont, British Columbia
The water swaps direction twice a day, whipping into a frenzy of whirlpools and rapids.
Comox-Strathcona K, British Columbia
A plaque on Canada's Hornby Island commemorates a fantastical creature from a fictional universe.
Tofino, British Columbia
The wreckage still sits at the exact spot the plane crash-landed in 1945, carrying 1,000 pounds of explosives.
Powell River, British Columbia
One of the final concrete ships built before World War II is now a crumbling breakwater.
Courtenay, British Columbia
At least 14 twice-retired ships were sunk to make a lovely rusting breakwater in Comox Harbour.
Boat Basin, British Columbia
Cougar Annie earned her nickname after shooting 60 cougars over the years as well as 80 black bears who threatened her garden.
Improvement District No. 24, Alberta
The half-mile long structure is so impressive, it even shows up on satellite images.
Quesnel Forks, British Columbia
A lonely cemetery holds the history of a gold mining town turned ghost town.
Port McNeill, British Columbia
A Canadian port town is oddly home to two of the largest tree burls in the world.
Improvement District No. 24, Alberta
The world's largest dark sky preserve is a Canadian park established to preserve the country's last wood bison.
Wembley, Alberta
Alberta's Pipestone Creek Bonebed is one of the densest fossil sites in the world. This nearby museum showcases some of the best finds from its "river of death."
Mount Waddington A, British Columbia
An island said to shake with the current.
Nunavut
The Arctic Archipelago is home to world's largest third order island: an island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island.
Fort Smith, Northwest Territories
Ice roads, deep holes and 3,500 pounds of diamonds.
Parkland, British Columbia
The first curved wooden bridge in Canada was built as part of the Alaska-Canada Highway.
Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
After a long, dark winter in the upper latitudes, Yellowknife knows how to let it all out in unparalleled style.
Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
This Canadian road's nickname stuck so hard the city had to keep it.