This historic lighthouse has been reincarnated as the perfect picnic place.

A World War II gun battery sits at the easternmost point of North America.

These colorful French islands spent a stint bootlegging booze during American Prohibition.

The first transatlantic wireless signal was received at this 17th-century fort.

Where a young athlete began his run across Canada after losing his right leg to cancer.

A crescent of 12 simple statues poised on a small windswept island off the coast of Newfoundland.

This former iron ore mine comes alive with fascinating stories of its history.

This oddly named town refuses to change its phallic moniker.

This huge ship ran aground and has simply been left to sit there ever since.

From this isolated strip of land in Newfoundland, Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic.

An abandoned amusement park hints at the twisted history of the Newfoundland Railway.

Dedicated to the deadliest aviation accidents on Canadian soil.

The tiny airport in remote Newfoundland that inspired a hit musical is also a modernist architectural gem.

A statue of the early navigator stands overlooking the land he first surveyed.

This quirky museum will make you question everything, including the shape of the planet.

The last remains of the extinct Beothuk people native to the island of Newfoundland.

A memorial to a giant seabird that was hunted to extinction.

This rocky spread has been squeezed up directly from the bowels of the earth.

A chaotic collection of maritime artifacts, art, and really whatever else happens to be around.

An ancient Viking village in North America that predates Columbus by 500 years.

A remote landmark named for a whimsical photograph taken by a 1850s photographer and his crew of graffiti artists.

A lone lighthouse on the wind-swept shores of the cape.

Hundreds of enormous icebergs drift through this waterway every year.

A tiny, picturesque island, where cows and wild horses wander around the houses.