The Hveragerði fissure runs through this unassuming shopping center.

Everyone's favorite clay duo immortalized in bronze.

This now-abandoned part of the original transcontinental railroad route provides a surreal driving and historical experience.

This famous archeological mystery may be an ancient example of movable type.

Canada's subterranean Cold War museum has doubled as a movie set.

Fossils, railroads, and waterfalls!

Hauntingly beautiful totem poles left by the Haida.

Housing a morgue, rare and confiscated weapons, and autopsy remains, the Vancouver police museum displays the dark side of Canada.

A hiking area billed as a possible home to Bigfoot.

A lake formed in the basin of a massive impact crater takes the shape of an unbroken ring when viewed from above.

One of the final concrete ships built before World War II is now a crumbling breakwater.

A lake in the middle of the tundra of Quebec is said to be the purest freshwater lake on Earth.

A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.

A Montreal deli that was so beloved that it was allowed to circumvent their laws of language.

This Canadian monument to the man who invented the telephone allows visitors to get up close and personal with the artifacts of his life.

These powerful, if squat, Canadian waterfalls flow in different directions depending on the time of day.

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

Canada's accused-traitor-turned-folk-hero is buried under a red stone in a ring of his own.

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

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

Twice a day, the water of the Petitcodiac River flows upstream in a surfable wave.

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

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

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