Places Jill Browne Wants to Go

A tiny, picturesque island, where cows and wild horses wander around the houses.

This former prison now houses a lovely library devoted to Quebec's oft-maligned English-speaking history.

A community-run museum invites visitors to explore Jewish communities before and after the Holocaust.

Train tunnel running underneath Quebec City.

This steep cable railway has been hoisting passengers in the heart of Québec City for over a century.

Small ship votives hang from the vaulted ceiling of this port-side church with a Latin inscription on the wall.

City law dictates that this mountaintop cathedral containing the heart of a saint is to remain the tallest building in town.

An abandoned town centered around a paper mill powered by a large waterfall.

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

The biggest museum dedicated to insects in North America, one of the largest in the world.

The remains of a paranoid inventor's hidden workshop lie in beautiful ruins amidst a Canadian park.

A Montreal deli that was so beloved that it was allowed to circumvent their laws of language.

This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.

Canada's largest graveyard boasts a lot of noteworthy artifacts as well as its own computerized mapping service.

This chilly Canadian hotel has a four-month lifespan due to the unusual material it's made of.

A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.

Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.

One of Canada's oldest museums, the beautiful Redpath has been serving up Natural History and Ethnography since 1882.

This engineering marvel is the longest bridge in Canada and one of the longest spans in the world.

While this is positively the smallest library in Canada, it aspires to be the smallest in the world.

Three buildings constructed of over 25,000 multicolored glass bottles.

This sprawling collection hides many charms.

Go inside the house that inspired L. M. Montgomery to create one of literature's most beloved heroines.

It may be a "Smoke Free Ontario" today, but at this museum you can still get a whiff of yesterday’s Golden Age of tobacco farming.