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Take a ride on antique streetcars from across Canada.

The first outlet of Canada's biggest fast-food franchise has been slinging doughnuts since 1964.

An abandoned Ontario prison turned over to time and nature.

This Haudenosaunee restaurant is a delicious tribute to indigenous cuisine.

An imposing, larger-than-life statue of Alexander Graham Bell sits at the entrance of the Bell Telephone Company office.

The telephone was first conceived here in 1874 by Alexander Graham Bell.

A small museum houses a long, rich history of life and death on Lake Erie — from famous shipwrecks to rum smugglers.

It may be a "Smoke Free Ontario" today, but at this museum you can still get a whiff of yesterday’s Golden Age of tobacco farming.

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

This interpretive path lets you get up close and personal with dinosaur bones.

What happens when a chef with indigenous roots takes over a hotel-restaurant?

Built to supply water to farmers in Alberta, this was once was the world's longest elevated concrete structure.

This massive and unusual rock formation near Okotoks is the world's largest known glacial erratic.

A seven-story wooden coal tipple stands this former mine, the last of many that once covered this area.

This ghost-town bar has bullet holes and plenty of stories lurking within its walls.

To get to or from this Canadian ghost town, you'll need to cross 11 single-lane bridges.

The main gates have been locked since 1745 and will remain so until the Stuart Dynasty returns to the throne.

What was to be the world's most secure Cold War document vault ended up as just a few shallow caves.

Historic site where Native American hunters once trapped and killed buffalo.

This remote 4,500 year old medicine wheel is one of the last of its kind.

This giant squid sculpture sits near the spot where a real-life specimen was captured in the late 19th-century.

A six-person chapel in the middle of Alberta's badlands.

Not for the faint of heart, this long pedestrian bridge rewards those who brave the wobbly walk with a beautiful view.

As if T-rex wasn't big enough, this Canadian monument is four times larger than the real thing.