Places From the Backwoods Wants to Go

In the Middle Ages, villagers would sound this stone trumpet to boost fertility and coax fish to shore.

Despite finally receiving electricity in 1970, this tiny town is now deserted.

This mysterious, medieval cathedral remains unbuilt but fiercely protected.

Two massive boulders, rocking back and forth with the ebbing of the sea.

The abandoned village of Skarð aptly illustrates the idiom "Don't put all your eggs in one basket."

This isolated island is often capped by its own fluffy cloud.

This egg-shaped treehouse was inspired by "sport sleeping."

The whimsical legacy of a Canadian artist.

This rare example of Vancouver's Victorian past was the home of one of the city's first bookbinders.

Outsider art meets hard scrabble mountain life in this woodcarver's home/art piece.

This little Vancouver shack is a temple to all things Hendrix.

Antiques shop filled with all manner of curious collectibles.

Two graffiti towers stand like ghosts of Vancouver's World War II-era defensive outpost.

A crumbling cliffside ruin hidden in the woods.

Webcam that broadcast the hatching of Bald Eagles to millions of viewers.

A plaque on Canada's Hornby Island commemorates a fantastical creature from a fictional universe.

By public opinion, this is Canada's knottiest tree.

A Canadian port town is oddly home to two of the largest tree burls in the world.

After spending more than a century on the ocean floor, this shipwrecked column is finally resting atop solid ground.

Saved by a logger, this Douglas fir is one of the last great old-growth trees in Canada.

This mundane shopping plaza is named after a gruesome piece of flotsam.

Cougar Annie earned her nickname after shooting 60 cougars over the years as well as 80 black bears who threatened her garden.

Canada shows its hockey pride with a giant stick.

This towering totem holds the title for the tallest in the world but only according to some.