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This quirky museum will make you question everything, including the shape of the planet.

A chaotic collection of maritime artifacts, art, and really whatever else happens to be around.

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

Hunt for buried treasure in Nova Scotia.

A giant snail sculpture looking longingly at the German traffic museum.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

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.

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

A sleepy little town that had the greatest landslide in North American history fall on it.

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

Built after the 1991 discovery of one of the world's most complete T.rex skeletons in the nearby hills.

At least 14 twice-retired ships were sunk to make a lovely rusting breakwater in Comox Harbour.

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

Live long and prosper in Vulcan, Alberta.

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

The collection of signage remembers the midcentury pushback against the new neon light.

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

Hauntingly beautiful totem poles left by the Haida.

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

Canada's subterranean Cold War museum has doubled as a movie set.

A collection of more than 12,000 shoes, displayed in a building shaped like a shoebox.

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

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