Places onoma Wants to Go

This Quebec estate is home to the elaborate gardens of a self-taught horticulturist.

From mining complex to industrial exhibition, this museum once played a major part in the X-Files.

The biggest museum dedicated to insects in North America, one of the largest in the world.

A surviving remnant of the thick ice mass that once mantled most of Western Canada's mountains.

The stunning remnants of this wreck emerge from an otherworldly backdrop of rainforests.

Hauntingly beautiful totem poles left by the Haida.

The world's largest and most outstanding marl lake regularly changes color.

This three-chambered cave is the only protected natural bat hibernaculum in Quebec.

Montreal's giant farmer's market is a foodie's best friend, especially in the winter months.

Hoodoos, naturally eroded land formations, stand 20 feet tall in the Canadian Badlands.

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

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

Louise Bourgeois' 30-foot-tall steel spider sculpture.

Earth's greatest purely vertical drop at 4,101 feet.

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

Surprisingly delicious Asian-style hot dogs.

A high point in Vancouver kitsch.

Soaring over the Niagara Whirlpool since 1916.

One of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World holds the world's tallest metal staircase.

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

This conservatory allows a little bit of the tropics to thrive in the middle of a major Canadian city.

One of Canada's oldest museums, the beautiful Redpath has been serving up Natural History and Ethnography since 1882.

This crescent-shaped sliver of sand is a magical haven for a herd of feral horses.

A sacred lake composed of over 300 separate pools of highly concentrated minerals.