Places From the Backwoods Wants to Go

A high point in Vancouver kitsch.

Housing a morgue, rare and confiscated weapons, and autopsy remains, the Vancouver police museum displays the dark side of Canada.

While these wooden totems bear a striking resemblance to First Nations artwork of British Columbia, their actual origins lay on the opposite side of the Pacific Ocean.

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

The remains of a Canadian train crash are now mouldering beneath layers of rust and graffiti.

Fossils, railroads, and waterfalls!

Defying all odds, this lonely little tree found a home on a log sticking out of a Canadian lake.

Traditional 15th century Chinese garden in the middle of Vancouver.

This Art Deco masterpiece has stood in for some of the most famous buildings in comic book history.

Railways may have forged this quintet of lovely tunnels, but now they are open to hikers.

This Elizabethan hedge maze is one of only six in North America.

This notorious Canadian mental institution was home to some of the first LSD experiments and origin of the word "psychedelic."

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

The "Paris of the Prairies" wouldn't be complete without a replica of the iconic landmark.

This partially completed dam was simply abandoned after nearly destroying the city it was built to service.

Where the English trapper who faked a First Nations identity bunked with beavers.

The abandoned tuberculosis sanatorium is said to be one of the most haunted places in Canada.

A cozy cafe tells the remarkable story of how one man started with a little red paperclip and wound up with an entire house.

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

The unusual lighthouse looms over waves of prairies with no sea in sight.

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

Two provinces and two territories touch borders deep in the middle of the wilderness.

The most northerly active sand dunes in the world have some very rare botanical residents.

Built after the 1991 discovery of one of the world's most complete T.rex skeletons in the nearby hills.