Improvement District No. 12, Alberta
Medicine Lake
Every fall this lake mysteriously drains, like a bathtub with the plug pulled out.
Places I've been
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Improvement District No. 12, Alberta
Every fall this lake mysteriously drains, like a bathtub with the plug pulled out.
Alberta
A surviving remnant of the thick ice mass that once mantled most of Western Canada's mountains.
Jasper, Alberta
This natural wonder is disappearing at an alarming rate.
Boat Basin, British Columbia
Cougar Annie earned her nickname after shooting 60 cougars over the years as well as 80 black bears who threatened her garden.
Jasper, Alberta
The site of a strange super top-secret military experiment during WWII on a remote Canadian lake.
Improvement District No. 24, Alberta
The half-mile long structure is so impressive, it even shows up on satellite images.
Nunavut
The Arctic Archipelago is home to world's largest third order island: an island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island.
Port McNeill, British Columbia
A Canadian port town is oddly home to two of the largest tree burls in the world.
Mount Waddington A, British Columbia
An island said to shake with the current.
Improvement District No. 24, Alberta
The world's largest dark sky preserve is a Canadian park established to preserve the country's last wood bison.
Fort Smith, Northwest Territories
Ice roads, deep holes and 3,500 pounds of diamonds.
Ocean Falls, British Columbia
Beautiful mostly-abandoned town only accessible by sea-worthy boat or plane.
Russia
Two islands just 4 km apart separated by an International Border and Date Line.
Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
After a long, dark winter in the upper latitudes, Yellowknife knows how to let it all out in unparalleled style.
Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
This Canadian road's nickname stuck so hard the city had to keep it.
Nome, Alaska
This ghostly Alaska village still clings to a steep cliffside despite having been abandoned for over 50 years.
British Columbia, Canada
This revered mutant tree was felled in an act of ecoterrorism leaving a legacy of myth and possibly murder.
Tlell, British Columbia
Hauntingly beautiful totem poles left by the Haida.
Tlell, British Columbia
The stunning remnants of this wreck emerge from an otherworldly backdrop of rainforests.
Barrow, Alaska
The "Gateway to the Arctic" connects Barrow's indigenous population with the sea and its traditional industry: whaling.
Deline, Northwest Territories
Locals believe the purity of this huge, untouched Arctic lake could be the salvation of human civilization.
Ketchikan, Alaska
One of two side-by-side totem pole parks dedicated to educating visitors on Tlingit history and culture.
Ketchikan, Alaska
This historic collection of Native Alaskan artifacts was resurrected through a partnership between the WPA and tribal artisans.
Inuvik Region, Northwest Territories
Natural earth mounds formed in the far north.