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Extinct woolly rhino skull.

Toronto, Ontario

SkullStore Oddity Shop

A collection of human remains, animal body parts, and other macabre curiosities all legally for sale.

One of the infamous toes.

Dawson City, Yukon

The Sourtoe Cocktail

A famed drink seasoned with an amputated toe, now on its tenth digit.

Home of A Thousand Faces
Permanently Closed

Radium Hot Springs, British Columbia

Home of A Thousand Faces

Outsider art meets hard scrabble mountain life in this woodcarver's home/art piece.

Salmon running thicker than water

Thompson-Nicola, British Columbia

Adams River Salmon Run

Every four years, millions of salmon fill a river so densely that its waters appear deep crimson.

Trees growing inside foundation of ruined home

Métabetchouan-Lac-à-la-Croix, Québec

Val-Jalbert Ghost Town

An abandoned town centered around a paper mill powered by a large waterfall.

Pool

Clarington, Ontario

Camp 30 POW Camp

A Canadian POW for German soldiers during WWII where prisoners hatched an elaborate escape plan.

Lamps in the museum's collection

Donalda, Alberta

Donalda Lamp Museum

The museum is home to four times as many lamps as there are people in town.

Fortune telling exhibit.
Permanently Closed

Canmore, Alberta

Curbside Museum

A small and quirky museum hidden inside a fence.

Al Rashid Mosque

Edmonton, Alberta

Al Rashid Mosque

First mosque in Canada, second in North America.

Patricia Hotel and Water Hole

Patricia, Alberta

Patricia Hotel and Water Hole

Kitschy steak joint where customers can cook their own meat over an eternal flame.

The Burmis Tree

Bellevue, Alberta

The Burmis Tree

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

Operation Habbakuk at Patricia Lake

Jasper, Alberta

Operation Habbakuk at Patricia Lake

The site of a strange super top-secret military experiment during WWII on a remote Canadian lake.

Sunnyslope Shelter

Linden, Alberta

Sunnyslope Shelter

Sitting empty in a lonely Canadian field is a century-old stone bunker sometimes called "One Man's Castle."

The Big Head sculpture in Canmore.

Canmore, Alberta

Big Head Sculpture

The granite head appears to be deep in thought and half buried in the ground.

Cantos Music Foundation.

Calgary, Alberta

National Music Centre

Eclectic musical collection ranging from hurdy gurdies and orphicas to the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio.

Lake Minnewanka Underwater Ghost Town

Improvement District No. 9, Alberta

Lake Minnewanka Underwater Ghost Town

The only way to visit this old resort hotel is with scuba gear.

UFO Landing Pad and Center.

Saint Paul, Alberta

World's First UFO Landing Pad

Canadian centennial project designed to gather information about UFOs.

Red Rock Coulee

Orion, Alberta

Red Rock Coulee

Huge spherical rocks in the middle of the prairie.

The Banff merman is a horrifying taxidermy experiement.

Banff, Alberta

Banff Merman

This mysterious taxidermy man-beast of the seven seas resides at the Banff Trading Post.

Schwartz's

Montreal, Québec

Schwartz's

A Montreal deli that was so beloved that it was allowed to circumvent their laws of language.

The Rainbow Tunnel.

Toronto, Ontario

The Rainbow Tunnel

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

Canso Bomber Plane Crash

Tofino, British Columbia

Canso Bomber Crash Site

The wreckage still sits at the exact spot the plane crash-landed in 1945, carrying 1,000 pounds of explosives.

Saint-André-du-Lac-Saint-Jean, Québec

Trou de la Fée - Protected Bat Cave

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

Bankhead

Bankhead, Alberta

Bankhead Ghost Town

The ruins of the "20-year town" lay out among the mountains of Alberta.

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