Canada
Drumheller
Hoodoos, coulees and the world's dinosaur museum share a badlands valley cut through wheat country.
The prairie splits without warning into striped rock and strange pillars. In the valley, a T. rex skeleton stands where the river found it.
Drumheller's Red Deer River valley concentrates Canada's dinosaur story: the Royal Tyrrell's world-class fossil halls, hoodoo trails and mine-era relics. The near-ghost-town of Wayne, eleven bridges up a side coulee, keeps a smokehouse saloon where the road runs out. Badlands light does the rest.
Family
The Tyrrell's halls and hoodoo scrambles make the best kind of museum day.
Solo
Badlands light and mine relics reward an unhurried photographer.
Friends
The eleven bridges to Wayne's saloon is a road trip in miniature.
- The Royal Tyrrell anchors Canada's dinosaur story in world-class halls.
- Hoodoos and mine relics line the Red Deer badlands.
- Wayne's smokehouse saloon waits eleven bridges up a coulee.
Wayne's Last Chance Saloon smokes local beef the slow way beyond the eleventh bridge.
Bernie and the Boys grills all-Alberta-beef burgers beside a list of more than 75 handcrafted milkshakes.
Saleaula Lava Fields
Samoa
The lava filled a church to its windows yet parted around a single grave.
Cheorwon
South Korea
Red-crowned cranes winter by the thousand on the border's rice plain.
Innamincka
Australia
An outback hospital built for impossible distances stands beside Cooper Creek and river red gums.
Flin Flon
Canada
A mining town named for a pulp sci-fi hero clings to Precambrian rock at Manitoba's border.
Bay of Fundy
Canada
The world's highest tides drain whole bays twice daily, uncovering sea caves and flowerpot rocks.
Québec City
Canada
North America's only walled city folds four centuries of French life into cliff-top stone lanes.
Herschel Island
Canada
An Arctic island of whalers' relics and Inuvialuit continuity rides the Beaufort Sea.