The oldest natural history museum in western Canada houses more than 5,000 vintage botanical and zoological specimens.

The natural hot spring that was integral to the creation of Canada's first national park.

Though many were skeptical at first, these animal-specific routes across the Trans-Canada Highway have been a major conservation success.

The ruins of the "20-year town" lay out among the mountains of Alberta.

The only way to visit this old resort hotel is with scuba gear.

A stone troll guards the hike that leads to this waterfall.

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

A sleepy little town that had the greatest landslide in North American history fall on it.

Historic site where Native American hunters once trapped and killed buffalo.

The frozen bubbles that form on the icy surface of this Canadian lake contain enough methane to create a small explosion.

Thousand-year-old trees tower within one of the world's only inland temperate rainforests.

Every fall this lake mysteriously drains, like a bathtub with the plug pulled out.

This unusual building straddles two countries.

A giant wooden statue of one of the greatest pitchers in 19th-century baseball.

Ancient pueblos built into the base of a natural canyon wall.

Once at the center of U.S. finance, the historic Trading Room was meticulously recreated piece by piece and rebuilt in the Art Institute.

A famous—but endangered—plant is on view at an unassuming nature preserve a quick drive from Myrtle Beach.

This historic folk art garden contains a nightmare tower that claims to be the world's largest concrete totem pole.

The remains of Abó, Gran Quivera, and Qurai are monuments to the long, complicated history of the Indigenous people of the Southwest.

This centuries-old pueblo church houses the body of a Franciscan friar who is said to be a rare "incorruptible" corpse.

This quirky hot springs town known to locals as "T or C" was named after a radio show.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

The highest point in Texas is capped by a big silver pyramid.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."