Places hunsicker Wants to Go

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

This egg-shaped treehouse was inspired by "sport sleeping."

Secret Swing.

Though many were skeptical at first, these animal-specific routes across the Trans-Canada Highway have been a major conservation success.

This house of worship in the Arctic Circle is shaped like an igloo.

Try the alligator at this fondue spot, which has been catering to "lovers and hedonists" since 1967.

When the big city meets the edge of the frontier, log skyscrapers are born.

This greenhouse was once a hockey arena.

This colossal reptile celebrates the history of the now-defunct Canadian Turtle Derby.

A space-age 1950s pavilion on a secluded path is full of Toronto history surprises.

This is one of the last remaining theatres in Canada to feature an Art Moderne architectural style.

This small Newfoundland town has declared itself the “Root Cellar Capital of the World.”

The natural hot spring that was integral to the creation of Canada's first national park.

A stone troll guards the hike that leads to this waterfall.

A mad mystery man who led Canadian mounties on a 150-mile wilderness chase is still buried with his secrets intact.

A rustic house where intellectuals and investors tried to put an end to Cold War nuclear armament.

A massive, fading granite poem is all that remains of one Whitman superfan's tribute to the famous writer.

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

With a floor made of thick glass, this observation deck offers a full view of Sunwapta Valley's mountains and rivers.

The picturesque remains of an abandoned silver mine slope down to Tagish Lake in the Yukon.

Take a hike to this remote, scenic tea stop in the Canadian Rockies.

This huge 12-foot concrete moose on the coast of Nova Scotia is the grandest of the sculptor's giant creatures.

The "plyscraper" is the world's tallest building made predominantly out of wood.

One of Canada's tiniest museums tackles the world's largest turtle.