The ruins of the "20-year town" lay out among the mountains of Alberta.

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

A small and quirky museum hidden inside a fence.

A stone troll guards the hike that leads to this waterfall.

Built to supply water to farmers in Alberta, this was once was the world's longest elevated concrete structure.

A standalone wonder amid the prairie badlands of southeastern Alberta.

Underground tunnels once home to crime are now back open to the public.

The giantess welcomes travelers to a small Saskatchewan town with a traditional Slavic greeting of bread and salt.

One man's ambition created this psychedelic log home.

The only natural lake in the world that drains into both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

Around half a million years ago, these magnificent columnar basalt cliffs were formed from cooling lava.

An architect's childhood fantasy treehouse made real.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

The residents at this Yellowstone wildlife park will certify your cooler as "bear-proof."

This Art Deco landmark claims to be the longest bridge over the shortest span of water in the world.

This bushy bug is one of the unsanctioned public sculptures that have survived in Regina.

This more than a century-old cathedral has seen its fair share of redesigns over the years.

The world's largest moose statue is located (where else?) in Canada.

The artwork commemorates the many ways 20th-century people perished while on the clock.

A monument to the 17,000 Chinese who worked and died to build Canada's Pacific Railway.

This urban oasis is a marvelous meld of music and landscape architecture.

A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.