Edmonton, Alberta
Al Rashid Mosque
First mosque in Canada, second in North America.
Places I've been
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Edmonton, Alberta
First mosque in Canada, second in North America.
Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
This Canadian road's nickname stuck so hard the city had to keep it.
Baddeck, Nova Scotia
This Canadian monument to the man who invented the telephone allows visitors to get up close and personal with the artifacts of his life.
Mundare, Alberta
Massive kielbasa stands 42 feet tall and weighs in at 12,000 pounds.
Edmonton, Alberta
This massive mall has hundreds of shops, an amusement park, and a history of deadly amusement attractions.
Halifax, Nova Scotia
The city of Halifax still bears the scars of the largest explosion prior to the atomic bomb.
Dildo, Newfoundland and Labrador
This oddly named town refuses to change its phallic moniker.
Fort Macleod, Alberta
Historic site where Native American hunters once trapped and killed buffalo.
Jasper, Alberta
This natural wonder is disappearing at an alarming rate.
Drumheller, Alberta
As if T-rex wasn't big enough, this Canadian monument is four times larger than the real thing.
Division No. 9, Subd. A, Newfoundland and Labrador
This rocky spread has been squeezed up directly from the bowels of the earth.
Improvement District No. 12, Alberta
Every fall this lake mysteriously drains, like a bathtub with the plug pulled out.
Watson Lake, Yukon
Roadside collection of 65,000 signs.
Vulcan, Alberta
Live long and prosper in Vulcan, Alberta.
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.
Alberta
A surviving remnant of the thick ice mass that once mantled most of Western Canada's mountains.
Drumheller, Alberta
Hoodoos, naturally eroded land formations, stand 20 feet tall in the Canadian badlands.
Québec City, Québec
This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.
Victoria, British Columbia
This historic Victorian hotel has a scandalous history of affairs and murder.
Vancouver, British Columbia
A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.
Field, British Columbia
Fossils, railroads, and waterfalls!
Montreal, Québec
A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.
North Vancouver, British Columbia
This expansive bridge in the Canadian wilderness was originally just built for friends.
Bayeux, France
This enormous "cloth of the conquest" depicts the Norman invasion of England in mind-blowing detail.