Outsider art meets hard scrabble mountain life in this woodcarver's home/art piece.

This 20-foot-tall sculpture is in honor of the herd of bighorn sheep that call Radium Hot Springs home.

Fossils, railroads, and waterfalls!

A roadside attraction fit for a giant.

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

Canada’s surprisingly controversial monument to Dwight Eisenhower.

In 1909, the steepest and most difficult piece of track on the Canadian Pacific Railway was replaced with a series of spiralling tunnels cut into the mountains.

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

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

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

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

Since its original beginnings as a weather observatory mountaintop, this facility played an instrumental role in gathering atmospheric data for almost 100 years.

A small and quirky museum hidden inside a fence.

Try the alligator at this fondue spot, which has been catering to "lovers and hedonists" since 1967.

A mysterious taxidermy man-beast of the seven seas.

Few other hotels can rival the grandeur of the Castle in the Rockies.

What was to be the world's most secure Cold War document vault ended up as just a few shallow caves.

The granite head appears to be deep in thought and half buried in the ground.

What happens when a chef with indigenous roots takes over a hotel-restaurant?

The New Central Library is a masterpiece of contemporary architecture in the midst of downtown Calgary.

A herd of colorfully painted bovine statues can be found in the middle of "cowtown."

One of the last remaining buildings from one of Calgary's earliest businesses.

With its webbed walls and bright red coloring, Calgary's iconic bridge looks like a finger trap puzzle stretched across the river.

This First Nations monument is a peaceful spot with vast views of the Calgary prairie.