A plaque on Canada's Hornby Island commemorates a fantastical creature from a fictional universe.

This quirky countryside store is known for the goats that hang out and eat the grass on its roof.

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

This towering totem holds the title for the tallest in the world but only according to some.

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

This hauntingly stark structure is a relic of an industrial past.

Canada shows its hockey pride with a giant stick.

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

Every four years, millions of salmon fill a river so densely that its waters appear deep crimson.

The mountaintop wind turbine boasts a viewing deck — and a fair share of controversy.

The oldest building in Vancouver's Chinatown is now home to one of Canada’s largest contemporary art collections.

Vancouver's only resting place for the city's deceased.

At least 14 twice-retired ships were sunk to make a lovely rusting breakwater in Comox Harbour.

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

Unlike many reclaimed, abandoned mines, this Canadian cave system is still just a dangerous maze.

An operating lighthouse from the 1860s.

Beautiful mostly-abandoned town only accessible by sea-worthy boat or plane.

Nestled near the mountains of western Canada resides this behemoth earth mover.

At just six feet two inches deep, it is said by Guiness and Ripley to be the world’s narrowest freestanding office building.

A renegade art installation in a small Vancouver park is now officially sanctioned by the City Parks Department.

A large spinning bath of liquid mercury, used to probe the early universe.

An island said to shake with the current.

The stunning remnants of this wreck emerge from an otherworldly backdrop of rainforests.

From mining complex to industrial exhibition, this museum once played a major part in the X-Files.