Places Mapgirl Wants to Go

Canada's first pet cemetery is now abandoned.

The first "applecore" style lighthouse in Nova Scotia.

A forlorn fishing village on the coast of Labrador, full of shipwrecks and Spanish gold.

No one knows the origins of the mysterious stone ruins discovered on a hillside in Halifax.

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

A skeletal collection of former nautical mainstays.

Bird dung painted this huge boulder which in turn inspired the name of a city.

Canada’s surprisingly controversial monument to Dwight Eisenhower.

One of Canada's tiniest museums tackles the world's largest turtle.

Despite being dead since the 1970s, this Canadian tree is kept upright and intact by adoring locals.

This knick-knack-covered house (complete with a matching van) is a charming oddity in the middle of a modest downtown neighborhood.

A winding stairway to a secluded beach in a residential neighborhood.

The world’s first museum dedicated to exploring human rights unleashed a wave of controversy.

The tiny airport in remote Newfoundland that inspired a hit musical is also a modernist architectural gem.

Mysterious concrete spires left on a small Canadian hill.

This rare example of Vancouver's Victorian past was the home of one of the city's first bookbinders.

A rare opportunity to drive across the ocean floor.

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

These powerful, if squat, Canadian waterfalls flow in different directions depending on the time of day.

Beautiful mostly-abandoned town only accessible by sea-worthy boat or plane.

You don't have to visit the deep blue sea to see these majestic creatures swimming wild and free.

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

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

A morbid piece of memorabilia from the most famous shipwreck in current history is just one of the many poignant artifacts in this Canadian museum's collection.