Places Brendan Kergin Wants to Go

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

By public opinion, this is Canada's knottiest tree.

The falls were named for the mistaken idea that they were the ones pictured on the Canadian $5 bill.

Two provinces and two territories touch borders deep in the middle of the wilderness.

Vancouver's only resting place for the city's deceased.

The mountaintop wind turbine boasts a viewing deck — and a fair share of controversy.

This hauntingly stark structure is a relic of an industrial past.

A unique spiral staircase that doesn't quite make it up to the top floor.

This vast, pristine wilderness is home to a rare subspecies of black bear.

This First Nations monument is a peaceful spot with vast views of the Calgary prairie.

Saved by a logger, this Douglas fir is one of the last great old-growth trees in Canada.

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

A small and quirky museum hidden inside a fence.

The remains of the worst maritime disaster in the history of the "Graveyard of the Pacific."

Thousand-year-old trees tower within one of the world's only inland temperate rainforests.

The water swaps direction twice a day, whipping into a frenzy of whirlpools and rapids.

Mysterious wreckage of a small plane has been lodged in this tree since at least 1971.

Canada's oldest railway tunnel is illuminated in a rainbow of color as it passes under the streets of this small city.

One of the largest cat sanctuaries in North America is considered a "Club Med" for felines.

One of the foremost Sherlock Holmes collections is hidden away at a Toronto library.

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

Defying all odds, this lonely little tree found a home on a log sticking out of a Canadian lake.

One of the last remaining buildings from one of Calgary's earliest businesses.

The "Paris of the Prairies" wouldn't be complete without a replica of the iconic landmark.