Banff, Alberta
Sulphur Mountain Cosmic Ray Station
Since its original beginnings as a weather observatory mountaintop, this facility played an instrumental role in gathering atmospheric data for almost 100 years.
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Banff, Alberta
Since its original beginnings as a weather observatory mountaintop, this facility played an instrumental role in gathering atmospheric data for almost 100 years.
Improvement District No. 9, Alberta
Though many were skeptical at first, these animal-specific routes across the Trans-Canada Highway have been a major conservation success.
Banff, Alberta
The natural hot spring that was integral to the creation of Canada's first national park.
Jasper, Alberta
This natural wonder is disappearing at an alarming rate.
Banff, Alberta
Few other hotels can rival the grandeur of the Castle in the Rockies.
Radium Hot Springs, British Columbia
This 20-foot-tall sculpture is in honor of the herd of bighorn sheep that call Radium Hot Springs home.
Portland, Oregon
Definitely not a clown bar.
Boston, Massachusetts
This massive tea kettle was once a promotional stunt for the Oriental Teashop.
Boston, Massachusetts
The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.
Boston, Massachusetts
This bronze sculpture was inspired by a photograph of Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife embracing after he won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
The headquarters of one of the world’s longest-running humor magazines bears a noticeable resemblance to a head wearing a Prussian helmet.
Salem, Massachusetts
A simple but powerful tribute to the 20 victims of the 1692 witch trials.
Yarmouth, Massachusetts
This Cape Cod museum exhibits what it claims is the only authenticated pirate treasure in the world.
Boston, Massachusetts
The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.
Boston, Massachusetts
One of the now-less-hidden floral gems of the "Emerald Necklace."
Dublin, Ireland
The modern birthplace of Irish freedom.
Paris, France
The video game-themed street art first popped up in the French city.
Paris, France
The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.
Milton, Massachusetts
The hill that gave the Massachusett tribe, and later the state, its name.
Sharon, Massachusetts
She become one of the first women to serve in the United States military by secretly dressing like a man.
West Bridgewater, Massachusetts
Tales of ghosts, cryptids, and true crime rise from the murky waters of the largest freshwater wetland in Massachusetts.
Yarmouth, Massachusetts
Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.
Sandwich, Massachusetts
Hundreds of personalized inscribed planks make up this historic boardwalk.
Easton, Massachusetts
A sign marks the location of an 18th-century sawmill allegedly owned by a wizard who employed Satanic imps.