This seemingly cursed monument is dedicated to one of Canada's great war heroes.

This landlocked lake is the world's largest on an island.

After spending more than a century on the ocean floor, this shipwrecked column is finally resting atop solid ground.

Where the English trapper who faked a First Nations identity bunked with beavers.

The little house that stood up to a disastrous flood has become a symbol of perseverance.

A modern version of the stone cairns built by the Inuit.

Icelandic settlement in Manitoba established in 1875.

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

One of Mother Nature’s geological gems, home to many prehistoric fossils.

No one knows the origins of the mysterious stone ruins discovered on a hillside in Halifax.

A long-abandoned provincial prison left to crumble in the frigid air of Ontario.

The abandoned tuberculosis sanatorium is said to be one of the most haunted places in Canada.

Canada’s surprisingly controversial monument to Dwight Eisenhower.

This historic Canadian jail was once the longest operating prison in the country and is now open for people to incarcerate themselves.

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

This mundane shopping plaza is named after a gruesome piece of flotsam.

A mad mystery man who led Canadian mounties on a 150-mile wilderness chase is still buried with his secrets intact.

Cougar Annie earned her nickname after shooting 60 cougars over the years as well as 80 black bears who threatened her garden.

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

The third-largest island in Canada is one of the remotest places on Earth.

The remote graves mark the mysterious deaths of four 19th century explorers.

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

The remains of an attempt to carve a thriving metropolis from the forest, and once home to the first revolving door in North America.

The falls were named for the mistaken idea that they were the ones pictured on the Canadian $5 bill.