Places Pengwn Wants to Go

The site of William McKinley's tragic assassination is only marked by an underwhelming boulder.

Toxic waste disaster that founded the Superfund program.

The statue of the famous elephant who was the original source of the word "jumbo".

One of many reminders of Tesla's scientific contributions overlooks the falls which inspired him.

Niagara Falls holds a special place in Nikola Tesla's history, so they put a statue on it.

Soaring over the Niagara Whirlpool since 1916.

Canada's oldest sugar maple has been growing since around 1500.

This colorful creation wasn't always a welcome part of Toronto's Moccasin Trail Park.

Willy Wonka would love this weird half-a-home.

One of Canada's most incredible rare book collections holds hundreds of thousands of gorgeous tomes that the general public can touch.

A monument to the 17,000 Chinese who worked and died to build Canada's Pacific Railway.

Smallest house in Toronto sits on a lot meant to be just wide enough for cars to drive through.

305 homemade stone stairs wind their way up the Hamilton escarpment.

The nude sculpture on this fountain shocked conservative townsfolk when it was first unveiled, but not as much as the dead body found in it decades later.

A popular place to pick up prehistoric coral fossils from the time when Michigan was an ocean.

Little island known for its massive beachfront "flowerpot" pillars.

Island where motor vehicles are banned -- home to the only carless highway in the United States.

This little barrel-shaped cottage by Lake Superior was once a cartoonist's summer retreat.

This lighthouse and shipwreck museum keep a torch burning for the memory of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.

Possibly the world's largest coin stands just outside of a Canadian science center.

Stunning views over Ontario's old-growth pine forests.

A flying saucer has landed for good in the middle of a tiny Canadian town.

A statue in a Canadian zoo remembers the WWI origins of the beloved character Winnie-the-Pooh.

This strangely specific landmark will let travelers know when they are half way there.