Places meltingknight Wants to Go

A World War II gun battery sits at the easternmost point of North America.

This greenhouse was once a hockey arena.

Canada's accused-traitor-turned-folk-hero is buried under a red stone in a ring of his own.

With the chapel itself being left to moulder, the cemetery of this abandoned church might be the freshest part.

The mastermind behind this palatial hotel perished on the Titanic weeks before its grand opening.

When the big city meets the edge of the frontier, log skyscrapers are born.

After a long, dark winter in the upper latitudes, Yellowknife knows how to let it all out in unparalleled style.

This artful dam holds back a crater-made reservoir that can be seen from space.

This igloo-shaped landmark in Iqaluit serves as the seat of the Diocese of the Arctic.

From this isolated strip of land in Newfoundland, Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic.

Locals believe the purity of this huge, untouched Arctic lake could be the salvation of human civilization.

A rustic house where intellectuals and investors tried to put an end to Cold War nuclear armament.

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

A massive, fading granite poem is all that remains of one Whitman superfan's tribute to the famous writer.

Twice a day, the water of the Petitcodiac River flows upstream in a surfable wave.

This extensive nuclear fallout shelter built from 42 school buses could house 500 people in its tunnels.

This landlocked lake is the world's largest on an island.

The first "applecore" style lighthouse in Nova Scotia.

Icelandic settlement in Manitoba established in 1875.

This Canadian road's nickname stuck so hard the city had to keep it.

A modern version of the stone cairns built by the Inuit.

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

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

This Canadian monument to the man who invented the telephone allows visitors to get up close and personal with the artifacts of his life.