Places clarochelle Wants to Go

Roadside tribute to a staple of eastern European cuisine.

Thanks to its curved shape, this incredibly durable dam "whispers" to visitors.

In the back of a bustling factory lurks a quiet museum honoring the history of Canadian sugar manufacturing.

This former prison now houses a lovely library devoted to Quebec's oft-maligned English-speaking history.

An ever-changing gathering of crude wooden figures haunts the St. Lawrence River.

This oddly named town refuses to change its phallic moniker.

The granite head appears to be deep in thought and half buried in the ground.

This quirky piece of naval artillery has been deafening Canadians for over a century.

This house was largely built out of hundreds of thousands of discarded glass embalming fluid bottles.

A renegade art installation in a small Vancouver park is now officially sanctioned by the City Parks Department.

One of Canada's oldest museums, the beautiful Redpath has been serving up Natural History and Ethnography since 1882.

A high point in Vancouver kitsch.

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

Historic psychiatric asylum and most-filmed location in the Great White North.

This church is said to have connections to the Knights Templars.

A miner’s death at the hands of strikebreaking company police sparks a labor movement that continues to the present day.

The monument is inscribed, "To Sagamore John and those Mystic Indians Whose Bones Lie Here”.

Outside San Francisco lies a small clown cemetery and memorial.

A commemorative plaque hides a door that leads down to the New York Public Library's underground book bunker.

This lonely rock along a gravel road outside of the southern Swedish village of Eksjö reminds us of a dark chapter in Swedish post-war history.

The historic home of the pivotal political activist who led the Métis people in rebellion against the Canadian government.

With the chapel itself being left to moulder, the cemetery of this abandoned church might be the freshest part.

The roofless ruins of a church surrounded by acres of bucolic farmland.

This historic Canadian jail was once the longest operating prison in the country and is now open for people to incarcerate themselves.