Archives: Atlas Obscuras

Saamis Tepee

Discover Saamis Tepee in Medicine Hat, Alberta: A standalone wonder amid the prairie badlands of southeastern Alberta.

Stephansson House Provincial Historic Site

Discover Stephansson House Provincial Historic Site in Spruce View, Alberta: This colorful historic site tells the story of Icelandic poetry and community in Central Alberta.

Coleman Frog

Discover Coleman Frog in Fredericton, New Brunswick: This bullfrog grew to an alleged weight of 42 pounds on a diet of whiskey, baked beans, and June bugs.

Red River Floodway

Discover Red River Floodway in Winnipeg, Manitoba: A marvel of engineering built to prevent annual floods from devastating the city of Winnipeg.

Jackie Robinson Mural

Discover Jackie Robinson Mural in Montreal, Québec: This public art pays homage to the baseball legend and civil rights icon and his time in Montreal.

Oil Museum of Canada

Discover Oil Museum of Canada in Oil Springs, Ontario: A petroleum heritage museum on the site where James Miller Williams dug the first commercial oil well on the continent in 1858.

White Otter Castle

Discover White Otter Castle in Kenora, Ontario: This log house sits in the remote Canadian wilderness, and holds a mysterious tale of the trapper who built it.

Oro African Church

Discover Oro African Church in Shanty Bay, Ontario: One of the last remaining structures built by a community of African Canadians in the 19th century.

Back Alley Arctic

Discover Back Alley Arctic in Winnipeg, Manitoba: A residential service road transformed into a menagerie of larger-than-life paintings of iconic Arctic wildlife.

Bighorns

Discover Bighorns in Radium Hot Springs, British Columbia: This 20-foot-tall sculpture is in honor of the herd of bighorn sheep that call Radium Hot Springs home.

Cape Anguille Lighthouse

Discover Cape Anguille Lighthouse in Cape Anguille, Newfoundland and Labrador: This lighthouse sits within a glacial valley.

Alvinston Honey Bee

Discover Alvinston Honey Bee in Alvinston, Ontario: This towering bee statue is a tribute to Ontario's first meadery and a century-old honey producer.

Shipwreck of the MV Ithaka

Discover Shipwreck of the MV Ithaka in Churchill, Manitoba: The rusting hulk of a 250-foot-long merchant vessel remains where she grounded on the shore of Hudson Bay.

Singing Sands Beach

Discover Singing Sands Beach in Souris, Prince Edward Island: A walk along this white sand beach creates a symphony.

Vancouver Maritime Museum

Discover Vancouver Maritime Museum in Vancouver, British Columbia: Step aboard the first ship to circumnavigate North America.

1000 Islands Tower

Discover 1000 Islands Tower in Lansdowne, Ontario: This observation tower is a longstanding, 1960s landmark in the Thousand Islands region of Canada.

Memorial Lakes

Discover Memorial Lakes in Kovach, Alberta: Three pristine alpine lakes named in memorial of an accident that resulted in three different plane crashes.

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To exhibit an important interchange of human values, over a span of time or within a cultural area of the world, on developments in architecture or technology, monumental arts, town-planning or landscape design. 474 iii
To bear a unique or at least exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition or to a civilization which is living or which has disappeared. 499 iv
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To be outstanding examples representing significant on-going ecological and biological processes in the evolution and development of terrestrial, fresh water, coastal and marine ecosystems and communities of plants and animals. 135 v
To be an outstanding example of a traditional human settlement, land-use, or sea-use which is representative of a culture (or cultures), or human interaction with the environment especially when it has become vulnerable under the impact of irreversible change. 167 vi
To be directly or tangibly associated with events or living traditions, with ideas, or with beliefs, with artistic and literary works of outstanding universal significance. (The Committee considers that this criterion should preferably be used in conjunction with other criteria). 252 vii
To contain superlative natural phenomena or areas of exceptional natural beauty and aesthetic importance. 148 viii
To be outstanding examples representing major stages of earth's history, including the record of life, significant on-going geological processes in the development of landforms, or significant geomorphic or physiographic features. 96 x
To contain the most important and significant natural habitats for in-situ conservation of biological diversity, including those containing threatened species of outstanding universal value from the point of view of science or conservation. 166

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