Places prairiequeer Wants to Go

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

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

Canada's largest graveyard boasts a lot of noteworthy artifacts as well as its own computerized mapping service.

Small ship votives hang from the vaulted ceiling of this port-side church with a Latin inscription on the wall.

The skyline of Montreal includes the silhouette of an unexpected fruit-shaped Canadian staple.

Roadside collection of 65,000 signs.

Hauntingly beautiful totem poles left by the Haida.

While these wooden totems bear a striking resemblance to First Nations artwork of British Columbia, their actual origins lay on the opposite side of the Pacific Ocean.

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

This natural sea cave hides a small wonderland of natural turquoise beauty.

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

Antiques shop filled with all manner of curious collectibles.

A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.

Museum of stuffed gophers set up in various scenes.

This Art Deco masterpiece has stood in for some of the most famous buildings in comic book history.

Traditional 15th century Chinese garden in the middle of Vancouver.

These strikingly barren, rolling red hills were caused by bad farming practices.

Railways may have forged this quintet of lovely tunnels, but now they are open to hikers.

Sleep snuggled in a sphere suspended atop the forest canopy of Vancouver Island.

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

A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.