Places Brendan Kergin Wants to Go

This mineral lake known for its healing powers is so buoyant it's been dubbed the "Dead Sea of Canada."

A broken man's homemade, seaworthy ship rests in the middle of the Canadian prairie.

The unusual lighthouse looms over waves of prairies with no sea in sight.

Home to a full cast of the largest woolly mammoth ever recovered in North America. 

This decommissioned DC-3 now forever points into the oncoming wind.

A famed drink seasoned with an amputated toe, now on its tenth digit.

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

Natural earth mounds formed in the far north.

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

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

Mysterious concrete spires left on a small Canadian hill.

This huge ship ran aground and has simply been left to sit there ever since.

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

This revered mutant tree was felled in an act of ecoterrorism leaving a legacy of myth and possibly murder.

One of the final concrete ships built before World War II is now a crumbling breakwater.

The whimsical legacy of a Canadian artist.

Roadside collection of 65,000 signs.

A small horde of mythical creatures lurk almost imperceptibly within the museum's wildlife dioramas.

Cougar Annie earned her nickname after shooting 60 cougars over the years as well as 80 black bears who threatened her garden.

Rare mummified forest could offers a glimpse into how our environment has been changed by humans.

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

The Twisted Trees of Alticane are an unnerving grove of Quaking Aspen, apparently mutated from a single source, giving them a twisted and unnatural appearance.

Housing a morgue, rare and confiscated weapons, and autopsy remains, the Vancouver police museum displays the dark side of Canada.

Few other hotels can rival the grandeur of the Castle in the Rockies.