Places sawilliams Wants to Go

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

Iconic rock formations that allow for exploration during high or low tide.

The collection of signage remembers the midcentury pushback against the new neon light.

The world's largest dark sky preserve is a Canadian park established to preserve the country’s wood bison population.

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

A school teacher's massive and terrifying self-built castle.

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

This Niagara Falls tourist trap is a world bright with neon and curiosities that will inspire love, hate, or a mixture of both.

A renegade art installation in a small Vancouver park is now officially sanctioned by the City Parks Department.

Few other hotels can rival the grandeur of the Castle in the Rockies.

This chilly Canadian hotel has a four-month lifespan due to the unusual material it's made of.

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

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

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

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

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

Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.

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

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

An old world fairytale-land with over 350 fairy folk figurines hidden amongst 800 year old cedars.

A small mountain cave tucked away along Kings Highway has become a shrine to the beloved character.

A miniature cathedral made of 20,948 tiny pieces of marble.

Many rock climbers have come to conquer this slender sea stack, with various degrees of success.

Critics argue this boab tree has been mislabeled for the sake of dark tourism, undermining its spiritual significance.