Places Jill Browne Wants to Go

Explore the ruins of war and maritime history along this gorgeously ferocious North Atlantic seascape.

This Canadian island is a veritable garden of decay with countless abandoned structures dotting the landscape.

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

Cliffs that hold fossils, including the earliest known reptile, dating back more than 300 million years.

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

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

On the waterfront of Sydney, Nova Scotia, a 60-ft. fiddle greets incoming ships.

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

This Canadian monument to the man who invented the telephone allows visitors to get up close and personal with the artifacts of his life.

Commemoration of a sea voyage gone mysteriously wrong.

Site of the first official transatlantic wireless communications.

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

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

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

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

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

Where a young athlete began his run across Canada after losing his right leg to cancer.

The first transatlantic wireless signal was received at this 17th-century fort.

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

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

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

An old drug store full of mortars and pestles, pill-making machines, and medicines reputed to cure most any illness.

Hundreds of enormous icebergs drift through this waterway every year.

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