Places thirstymaenad Wants to Go

The historic home of the pivotal political activist who led the Métis people in rebellion against the Canadian government.

The ruined remains of an early hydroelectric dam.

Icelandic settlement in Manitoba established in 1875.

The largest single concentration of harmless garter snakes in the world is a writhing Canadian serpent orgy.

The world's largest and most outstanding marl lake regularly changes color.

You don't have to visit the deep blue sea to see these majestic creatures swimming wild and free.

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

Only a few remaining items alert intrepid explorers that a town once stood in this region.

The "Crow Boat" of Kootenay Lake, sold for a dollar and now on display as "the world's oldest intact passenger sternwheeler."

Vancouver's only resting place for the city's deceased.

A unique spiral staircase that doesn't quite make it up to the top floor.

At least 14 twice-retired ships were sunk to make a lovely rusting breakwater in Comox Harbour.

This country market harbors goats on its roof.

An abandoned logging settlement nestled in the woods near a popular ski town.

Unlike many reclaimed, abandoned mines, this Canadian cave system is still just a dangerous maze.

From mining complex to industrial exhibition, this museum once played a major part in the X-Files.

A floating McDonald's built for Expo '86 is now a derelict relic on Burrard Inlet.

Thousand-year-old trees tower within one of the world's only inland temperate rainforests.

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

The stunning remnants of this wreck emerge from an otherworldly backdrop of rainforests.

A crumbling cliffside ruin hidden in the woods.

A hiking area billed as a possible home to Bigfoot.

One of the largest cat sanctuaries in North America is considered a "Club Med" for felines.

The remains of a Canadian train crash are now mouldering beneath layers of rust and graffiti.