Places Helen Back Wants to Go

The beloved war-time celebrity spent time in the area before retiring to the Edinburgh Zoo.

The highest peak in the United Kingdom has a history of physics, specters, and a pilgrimage of strange objects.

Memorial to the victims of the deadliest aviation incident in the UK

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

Dedicated to an "Unknown Man," this grave holds either the remains of a lovelorn suicide or a Cold War spy.

This hidden Art Nouveau courtyard is an opulent feast for the eyes.

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

A massive skeleton suspended in the Memorial University of Newfoundland's Core Science Facility.

The stone barriers in this historic fishing village were once used for farming and gardening.

This remote Moravian mission brought Christianity—as well as devastation—to the Inuit people.

A small museum in Newfoundland is home to a 227-foot tapestry that preserves the remote region's colorful history.

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

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

Hundreds of enormous icebergs drift through this waterway every year.

Possibly the oldest living thing in Europe, more likely a pagan survivor.

This tiny abode has been covered in the art of the little old lady who made her life and living there.

No one knows the origins of the mysterious stone ruins discovered on a hillside in Halifax.

The final resting place of 121 victims of the RMS Titanic, 42 of which may never be identified.

Housed inside a replica church, its collection honors the Black community displaced by the Halifax government.

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

The profile of one ill-fated deacon was emblazoned forever on this church window during the Halifax explosion.

This historic cemetery stopped accepting bodies before many Canadian cities were founded.

A morbid piece of memorabilia from the most famous shipwreck in current history is just one of the many poignant artifacts in this Canadian museum's collection.

The final resting place of this rock icon has become a pilgrimage site for AC/DC fans.