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32.0806, -81.0946
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Edmonton, Alberta
Al Rashid Mosque
First mosque in Canada, second in North America.
53.5013, -113.5797
Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
Ragged Ass Road
This Canadian road's nickname stuck so hard the city had to keep it.
62.4605, -114.3527
Baddeck, Nova Scotia
Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site
This Canadian monument to the man who invented the telephone allows visitors to get up close and personal with the artifacts of his life.
46.1034, -60.7465
Mundare, Alberta
The World's Largest Sausage
Massive kielbasa stands 42 feet tall and weighs in at 12,000 pounds.
53.5910, -112.3364
Edmonton, Alberta
West Edmonton Mall
This massive mall has hundreds of shops, an amusement park, and a history of deadly amusement attractions.
53.5222, -113.6228
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Halifax Explosion Memorial
The city of Halifax still bears the scars of the largest explosion prior to the atomic bomb.
44.6658, -63.6012
Dildo, Newfoundland and Labrador
Dildo, Newfoundland
This oddly named town refuses to change its phallic moniker.
47.5706, -53.5556
Fort Macleod, Alberta
Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump
Historic site where Native American hunters once trapped and killed buffalo.
49.7056, -113.6532
Jasper, Alberta
Athabasca Glacier
This natural wonder is disappearing at an alarming rate.
52.1897, -117.2578
Drumheller, Alberta
The World's Largest Dinosaur
As if T-rex wasn't big enough, this Canadian monument is four times larger than the real thing.
51.4675, -112.7087
Division No. 9, Subd. A, Newfoundland and Labrador
The Tablelands
This rocky spread has been squeezed up directly from the bowels of the earth.
49.4360, -57.9876
Improvement District No. 12, Alberta
Medicine Lake
Every fall this lake mysteriously drains, like a bathtub with the plug pulled out.
52.8447, -117.7298
Watson Lake, Yukon
Watson Lake Sign Post Forest
Roadside collection of 65,000 signs.
60.0654, -128.7031
Vulcan, Alberta
Vulcan
Live long and prosper in Vulcan, Alberta.
50.4061, -113.2577
Improvement District No. 24, Alberta
Wood Buffalo National Park
The world's largest dark sky preserve is a Canadian park established to preserve the country's last wood bison.
59.3833, -113.3101
Alberta
Columbia Icefield
A surviving remnant of the thick ice mass that once mantled most of Western Canada's mountains.
52.1897, -117.2578
Drumheller, Alberta
The Hoodoos of Drumheller Valley
Hoodoos, naturally eroded land formations, stand 20 feet tall in the Canadian badlands.
51.3806, -112.5342
Québec City, Québec
Château Frontenac
This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.
46.8119, -71.2063
Victoria, British Columbia
The Empress Hotel
This historic Victorian hotel has a scandalous history of affairs and murder.
48.4215, -123.3682
Vancouver, British Columbia
Gastown Steam Clock
A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.
49.2849, -123.1113
Field, British Columbia
Yoho National Park
Fossils, railroads, and waterfalls!
51.3956, -116.4865
Montreal, Québec
Notre Dame Basilica
A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.
45.5087, -73.5540
North Vancouver, British Columbia
Capilano Suspension Bridge
This expansive bridge in the Canadian wilderness was originally just built for friends.
49.3429, -123.1149
Bayeux, France
Bayeux Tapestry
This enormous "cloth of the conquest" depicts the Norman invasion of England in mind-blowing detail.
49.2743, -0.7000
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