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See just what life was like in a 19th-century prospecting town.

This former mining hub holds a surprising abundance of undisturbed relics from the Old West.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

This mineral lake known for its healing powers is so buoyant it's been dubbed the "Dead Sea of Canada."

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

Every fall this lake mysteriously drains, like a bathtub with the plug pulled out.

After Havre burned down, the best place to build was under the ashes.

This angular Dwarven tunnel cuts through a mountainside in Glacier National Park.

Despite being dead since the 1970s, this Canadian tree is kept upright and intact by adoring locals.

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

Historic site where Native American hunters once trapped and killed buffalo.

The frozen bubbles that form on the icy surface of this Canadian lake contain enough methane to create a small explosion.

The Twisted Trees of Alticane are an unnerving grove of Quaking Aspen, apparently mutated from a single source, giving them a twisted and unnatural appearance.

Canada’s surprisingly controversial monument to Dwight Eisenhower.

A face emerges from the landscape when seen from the air.

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

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

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

What was to be the world's most secure Cold War document vault ended up as just a few shallow caves.

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