This giant squid sculpture sits near the spot where a real-life specimen was captured in the late 19th-century.

This historic lighthouse has been reincarnated as the perfect picnic place.

From this isolated strip of land in Newfoundland, Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic.

A World War II gun battery sits at the easternmost point of North America.

An old drug store full of mortars and pestles, pill-making machines, and medicines reputed to cure most any illness.

A forlorn fishing village on the coast of Labrador, full of shipwrecks and Spanish gold.

This huge ship ran aground and has simply been left to sit there ever since.

This rocky spread has been squeezed up directly from the bowels of the earth.

The tiny airport in remote Newfoundland that inspired a hit musical is also a modernist architectural gem.

This oddly named town refuses to change its phallic moniker.

Hundreds of enormous icebergs drift through this waterway every year.

An ancient Viking village in North America that predates Columbus by 500 years.

This remote piece of Cape Breton coast was the unceremonious landing site of the first solo, east-west transatlantic flight made by a female aviator.

A community-owned museum that celebrates the history of the shipbuilding industry in this part of Nova Scotia.

Everything in this two-story house—down to the mounted deer head on the wall—was carefully crafted from concrete.

Built more as a work of art than living quarters, this cottage has withstood the test of time.

Alongside a scenic road are the remains of crumbling World War II gun emplacement.

Experience the magic (and science) of a camera with this giant structure that allows you to enter inside the camera.

The first "applecore" style lighthouse in Nova Scotia.

This huge 12-foot concrete moose on the coast of Nova Scotia is the grandest of the sculptor's giant creatures.

On the waterfront of Sydney, Nova Scotia, a 60-ft. fiddle greets incoming ships.

The profile of one ill-fated deacon was emblazoned forever on this church window during the Halifax explosion.

This tiny abode has been covered in the art of the little old lady who made her life and living there.

One of Canada's tiniest museums tackles the world's largest turtle.