Places glnomad Wants to Go

The tiny airport in remote Newfoundland that inspired a hit musical is also a modernist architectural gem.

The last remains of the extinct Beothuk people native to the island of Newfoundland.

This quirky museum will make you question everything, including the shape of the planet.

A memorial to a giant seabird that was hunted to extinction.

This quirky museum celebrates the history of a local cod fishing industry.

This historic lighthouse has been reincarnated as the perfect picnic place.

A tiny village started by a father, lovingly restored by his son.

Newfoundland's last remaining granite lighthouse.

This lighthouse sits within a glacial valley.

A statue of the early navigator stands overlooking the land he first surveyed.

A chaotic collection of maritime artifacts, art, and really whatever else happens to be around.

The site of the fossilized remains of some of Earth’s earliest primitive, microbial life forms.

A lone lighthouse on the wind-swept shores of the cape.

A remote landmark named for a whimsical photograph taken by a 1850s photographer and his crew of graffiti artists.

An ancient Viking village in North America that predates Columbus by 500 years.

This community museum preserves the largest collection of Coal Age fossil plants in Maritimes.

Site of the first official transatlantic wireless communications.

This remote piece of Cape Breton coast was the unceremonious landing site of the first solo, east-west transatlantic flight made by a female aviator.

The highest tides in the world come in and out here twice a day, allowing you to essentially walk along the ocean floor.

Experience the magic (and science) of a camera with this giant structure that allows you to enter inside the camera.

The city of Halifax still bears the scars of the largest explosion prior to the atomic bomb.

This Quebec estate is home to the elaborate gardens of a self-taught horticulturist.

A tunnel that brings more than a century of history to life from the deepest parts of the Niagara Gorge.

This replica of a 16th-century French settlement memorializes one of the earliest attempts at a European settlement in North America.