The first KFC is on the National Register of Historic Places.

After a water tower painting was accused of being an ad, a simple fix was made that gave the city a motto.

Over 60 chemical plants and oil refineries sit in a 15-mile-wide section outside town.

A petroleum heritage museum on the site where James Miller Williams dug the first commercial oil well on the continent in 1858.

This towering bee statue is a tribute to Ontario's first meadery and a century-old honey producer.

This bullfrog grew to an alleged weight of 42 pounds on a diet of whiskey, baked beans, and June bugs.

An exhibit dedicated to a physicist who dedicated his life to proving the existence of UFOs.

The oldest natural history museum in western Canada houses more than 5,000 vintage botanical and zoological specimens.

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

These little-known sands dunes are a geological anomaly in Saskatchewan's southern prairies.

A seven-story wooden coal tipple stands this former mine, the last of many that once covered this area.

Hoodoos, naturally eroded land formations, stand 20 feet tall in the Canadian Badlands.

To get to or from this Canadian ghost town, you'll need to cross 11 single-lane bridges.

This ghost-town bar has bullet holes and plenty of stories lurking within its walls.

Not for the faint of heart, this long pedestrian bridge rewards those who brave the wobbly walk with a beautiful view.

As if T-rex wasn't big enough, this Canadian monument is four times larger than the real thing.

A six-person chapel in the middle of Alberta's badlands.

Fossils, railroads, and waterfalls!

In 1909, the steepest and most difficult piece of track on the Canadian Pacific Railway was replaced with a series of spiralling tunnels cut into the mountains.

Canada’s surprisingly controversial monument to Dwight Eisenhower.

Though many were skeptical at first, these animal-specific routes across the Trans-Canada Highway have been a major conservation success.

The natural hot spring that was integral to the creation of Canada's first national park.

This mysterious taxidermy man-beast of the seven seas resides at the Banff Trading Post.

Few other hotels can rival the grandeur of the Castle in the Rockies.