Places hrgoldman3 Wants to Go

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

A miner’s death at the hands of strikebreaking company police sparks a labor movement that continues to the present day.

These colorful French islands spent a stint bootlegging booze during American Prohibition.

This former iron ore mine comes alive with fascinating stories of its history.

The historic Newfoundland outpost where the first successful transatlantic telegraph cable made landfall.

An abandoned amusement park hints at the twisted history of the Newfoundland Railway.

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

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

A sea glass gold mine on Newfoundland’s rugged coast.

This rocky spread has been squeezed up directly from the bowels of the earth.

A lake in the middle of the tundra of Quebec is said to be the purest freshwater lake on Earth.

The Arctic Archipelago is home to world's largest third order island: an island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island.

The remote graves mark the mysterious deaths of four 19th century explorers.

The closest thing to Mars on Earth.

The world's northernmost flowers cling tenuously to life on desolate Kaffeklubben Island.

In the northernmost city in the world, it's illegal to be buried because it’s too cold for bodies to decompose.

This Arctic storage facility is a secure backup for agricultural biodiversity.

This Arctic mining town is home to a cat that's spent years masquerading as a fox.

This abandoned mining village was predicted to resist decay longer than any other modern human settlement.

The 3.8 billion-year-old rock proves that tectonic plates may have been shifting longer than we thought.

A surprisingly beautiful abandoned World War II military base in East Greenland.

This remote research station sits amid the second-largest ice sheet on the planet.

Neither bomb blasts nor heartbeats escape the giant ears of this super sci-fi Arctic outpost.

A Cold War atomic camp buried under the ice is now emerging because of global warming.