Places thirstymaenad Wants to Go

The unusual lighthouse looms over waves of prairies with no sea in sight.

A community-owned museum that celebrates the history of the shipbuilding industry in this part of Nova Scotia.

This Novia Scotia museum showcases local history through miniature models built by one man.

This community museum preserves the largest collection of Coal Age fossil plants in Maritimes.

Explore the ruins of war and maritime history along this gorgeously ferocious North Atlantic seascape.

In Union Cemetery, a petrified tree stump marks the grave of a notable mineralogist, mine owner and oilman.

This colorful historic site tells the story of Icelandic poetry and community in Central Alberta.

This 30-foot-high statue of Christ was intended to be part of a prehistoric theme park.

Three pristine alpine lakes named in memorial of an accident that resulted in three different plane crashes.

Alberta's Pipestone Creek Bonebed is one of the densest fossil sites in the world. This nearby museum showcases some of the best finds from its "river of death."

The site of a strange super top-secret military experiment during WWII on a remote Canadian lake.

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

Canadian centennial project designed to gather information about UFOs.

Live long and prosper in Vulcan, Alberta.

Every fall this lake mysteriously drains, like a bathtub with the plug pulled out.

The half-mile long structure is so impressive, it even shows up on satellite images.

The frozen bubbles that form on the icy surface of this Canadian lake contain enough methane to create a small explosion.

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

A wonderful museum on the site of the historic Black Bear Mine on the back of Red Mountain.

The morning of January 9, 1965, over 46 million cubic meters of earth, rock, and snow broke free, obliterating a section of the highway below.

According to the local First Nations folklore, this rock was once a man.

A historic highway suspension bridge on the old Fraser River highway has been preserved for non-motorized traffic.

A curated collection of hundreds of taxidermy animals from across British Columbia, Canada, and the rest of the world.

In 1909, the steepest and most difficult piece of track on the Canadian Pacific Railway was replaced with a series of spiralling tunnels cut into the mountains.