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Unusual Attractions in Jasper

Jasper, Alberta

The Athabasca Glacier

This natural wonder is disappearing at an alarming rate.

Jasper, Alberta

Operation Habbakuk at Patricia Lake

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

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Columbia Icefield

A surviving remnant of the thick ice mass that once mantled most of Western Canada's mountains.

5 miles from Jasper

Improvement District No. 12, Alberta

Medicine Lake

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

14 miles from Jasper

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