Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

David Sedaris called it "The greatest shop in the world."

This igloo-shaped landmark in Iqaluit serves as the seat of the Diocese of the Arctic.

The first "applecore" style lighthouse in Nova Scotia.

An automotive, farming machinery, and aviation museum located in Wetaskiwin, Alberta, Canada.

Despite being dead since the 1970s, this Canadian tree is kept upright and intact by adoring locals.

This strangely specific landmark will let travelers know when they are half way there.

The world's longest covered bridge is a quaint and incredible wooden tunnel.

This stretch of Canadian road was named after a nickname that stuck so hard the city had to keep it.

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

Bird dung painted this huge boulder which in turn inspired the name of a city.

Natural earth mounds formed in the far north.

A colorful collection of scavenged glass bells decorates this Canadian ranch.

A skeletal collection of former nautical mainstays.

Built after the 1991 discovery of one of the world's most complete T.rex skeletons in the nearby hills.

This tiny square mile of Canadian sand was once considered the world's smallest desert.

Mysterious wreckage of a small plane has been lodged in this tree since at least 1971.

This Canadian exhibit with claims as the largest one man taxidermy collection in North America.

Blackfoot petroglyphs of southern Alberta which date back as far as 7000 B.C.