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Mac the Moose

Moose Jaw's Mac the Moose has watched the Trans-Canada Highway since 1984 — and when Norway built a taller moose, Saskatchewan answered with bigger antlers.

Illustration of a hiker standing on a granite outcrop above Falcon Lake at dusk, a strange warm glow in the sky over the treeline

Falcon Lake: Canada's Strangest UFO Story

In 1967, a Winnipeg prospector walked out of the Whiteshell woods with grid-pattern burns and a story he never changed. You can still hike to the rock.

Illustration of Sudbury's Big Nickel — a giant coin with a king's portrait standing on a rocky hill above a mining town

The Big Nickel

Sudbury, Ontario keeps its spare change on a hill: a nine-metre stainless-steel nickel built by one stubborn firefighter above a city mined from rock.

The Sign Post Forest

In Watson Lake, Yukon, a homesick soldier's single sign in 1942 grew into a forest of an estimated 100,000 signs from everywhere on Earth.

Illustration of St. Paul's circular UFO landing pad with its flag poles and the flying-saucer-shaped tourist centre beside it

The UFO Landing Pad a Town Built on Purpose

In 1967, while other towns built arenas for Canada's Centennial, St. Paul, Alberta built a landing pad for flying saucers — and welcomed every visitor.

Illustration of Shediac's giant red lobster statue on its pedestal above the harbour, with fishing boats and tiny visitors below

The World's Largest Lobster

Shediac, New Brunswick calls itself the Lobster Capital of the World and guards the claim with a giant red lobster, some 11 metres long, that you can climb.

Illustration of a station wagon rolling uphill on a rural road at Moncton's Magnetic Hill while a family watches in delight

Magnetic Hill: The Road That Rolls Uphill

In Moncton, New Brunswick, you stop the car, shift into neutral — and roll uphill. Magnetic Hill has been happily fooling drivers since the 1930s.

Happy Rock

Gladstone, Manitoba took its own name as a dare — glad means happy, a stone is a rock — and built the grinning 36-foot proof beside the Yellowhead Highway.

Illustration of Glendon's giant perogy speared on a huge fork above a prairie town

The Giant Perogy of Glendon

In Glendon, Alberta, dinner is served twenty-seven feet in the air: the world's largest perogy, speared on a fork, in the heart of Ukrainian-Canadian country.

Illustration of a wooden ghost town main street in the BC mountains at sunset

Chasing Ghosts in BC's Interior

Silver rushes, gold fevers, and the towns they left behind — a road trip through the beautiful, stubborn ghost towns of British Columbia's interior.