Archives: Atlas Obscuras

Musee du Fort

Discover Musee du Fort in Québec City, Québec: A 400-square foot model of historic Quebec is the playing field for a state of the art light and sound show.

Laval Abandoned Drive-In

Discover Laval Abandoned Drive-In in Laval, Québec: This haunted corpse of a drive-in is now a graffiti-covered ruin.

Emily Carr House

Discover Emily Carr House in Victoria, British Columbia: This Italianate house was the childhood home of the prominent Canadian painter, Emily Carr.

The Vegreville Pysanka

Discover The Vegreville Pysanka in Vegreville, Alberta: Possibly the world’s easiest Easter-egg hunt.

Sucrerie de la Montagne

Discover Sucrerie de la Montagne in Rigaud, Québec: This shack nestled in a 120-acre forest of maple trees in Mont-Rigaud is a wonderland of sugary syrup.

Canada’s Mac the Moose

Discover Mac the Moose in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan: The world's largest moose statue is located (where else?) in Canada.

Diavik Diamond Mine

Discover Diavik Diamond Mine in Fort Smith, Northwest Territories: Ice roads, deep holes and 3,500 pounds of diamonds.

Museum of Whales and Things

Discover Museum of Whales and Things in Port au Choix, Newfoundland and Labrador: A chaotic collection of maritime artifacts, art, and really whatever else happens to be around.

Cement Cemetery

Discover Cement Cemetery in Rosser, Manitoba: Mysterious concrete spires left on a small Canadian hill.

Frank Slide

Discover Frank Slide in Bellevue, Alberta: A sleepy little town that had the greatest landslide in North American history fall on it.

Tremble Island

Discover Tremble Island in Mount Waddington A, British Columbia: An island said to shake with the current.

Lake Manicouagan

Discover Lake Manicouagan in Rivière-aux-Outardes, Québec: A lake formed in the basin of a massive impact crater takes the shape of an unbroken ring when viewed from above.

Haughton Impact Crater

Discover Haughton Impact Crater in Devon Island, Nunavut: The closest thing to Mars on Earth.

Jumbo the Elephant

Discover Jumbo the Elephant in Saint Thomas, Ontario: The statue of the famous elephant who was the original source of the word "jumbo".

Ocean Falls

Discover Ocean Falls in Ocean Falls, British Columbia: Beautiful mostly-abandoned town only accessible by sea-worthy boat or plane.

Operation Habbakuk at Patricia Lake

Discover Operation Habbakuk at Patricia Lake in Jasper, Alberta: The site of a strange super top-secret military experiment during WWII on a remote Canadian lake.

La Sala Rossa

Discover La Sala Rossa in Montreal, Québec: From lefty Jewish gathering site to hip cultural site in just 80 years.

Beaudry Metro

Discover Beaudry Metro in Montreal, Québec: Montreal's colorful subway station shows its support of the local LGBT+ community.

Musée des Ondes Emile Berliner

Discover Musée des Ondes Emile Berliner in Montréal, Québec: This indiscriminate collection of audio antiques is trying to preserve the history of the audio industry one vintage appliance at a time.

Old Burying Ground

Discover Old Burying Ground in Halifax, Nova Scotia: This historic cemetery stopped accepting bodies before many Canadian cities were founded.

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