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Canada punches above its weight in strange places to sleep: the continent's only true ice hotel, an inn on stilts at the edge of the Atlantic whose profits go back to its island, domes under the Yukon aurora, spheres hanging in BC rainforest, and a lighthouse you can sleep inside on PEI. 13 of them, verified.

Castle hotels

Fairmont Banff Springs

Banff · Alberta · Canada · Castle hotels

The 'Castle in the Rockies': a baronial railway hotel opened in 1888 above the Bow Falls in Banff National Park.

Castle hotels

Fairmont Le Château Frontenac

Quebec City · Quebec · Canada · Castle hotels

The castle-hotel above Old Quebec, opened in 1893 and often called the most photographed hotel in the world.

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Converted stays

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Converted stays

Train Station Inn

Tatamagouche · Nova Scotia · Canada · Converted stays

Nova Scotia's oldest railway station, with rooms in the 1887 station house and in restored cabooses on the tracks outside.

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Domes & glass igloos

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Domes & glass igloos

Dômes Charlevoix

Petite-Rivière-Saint-François · Quebec · Canada · Domes & glass igloos

Geodesic domes on a forested mountainside above the St. Lawrence River, in the Charlevoix hills near Baie-Saint-Paul.

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Domes & glass igloos

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Domes & glass igloos

Northern Lights Resort & Spa

Whitehorse · Yukon · Canada · Domes & glass igloos

Glass aurora chalets outside Whitehorse with panoramic windows angled at the northern sky.

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Domes & glass igloos

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Domes & glass igloos

Ridgeback Lodge

Kingston Peninsula · New Brunswick · Canada · Domes & glass igloos

Glamping domes and stargazing cabins in the woods of New Brunswick's Kingston Peninsula, near the Kennebecasis River.

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Domes & glass igloos

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Domes & glass igloos

Treetop Haven

Mount Tryon · Prince Edward Island · Canada · Domes & glass igloos

Five geodesic domes and a treehouse on 50 wooded acres in Mount Tryon, PEI, each dome with its own hot tub.

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Ice hotels

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Ice hotels

Hôtel de Glace

Saint-Gabriel-de-Valcartier · Quebec · Canada · Ice hotels

North America's only true ice hotel, rebuilt each winter at Village Vacances Valcartier and open roughly January to March.

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Lighthouse stays

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Lighthouse stays

West Point Lighthouse Inn

West Point · Prince Edward Island · Canada · Lighthouse stays

Rooms inside PEI's tallest lighthouse, a working 1875 light at the island's western tip; two rooms are in the tower itself.

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Treehouse stays

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Treehouse stays

Free Spirit Spheres

Qualicum Beach · British Columbia · Canada · Treehouse stays

Hand-crafted spherical treehouses suspended in the coastal rainforest of Vancouver Island, reached by spiral staircases.

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Wilderness icons

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Wilderness icons

Clayoquot Wilderness Lodge

Clayoquot Sound · British Columbia · Canada · Wilderness icons

A luxury tented camp in the rainforest of Clayoquot Sound, reachable only by seaplane or boat from Tofino.

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Wilderness icons

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Wilderness icons

Fogo Island Inn

Joe Batt's Arm, Fogo Island · Newfoundland and Labrador · Canada · Wilderness icons

An inn on stilts at the edge of the North Atlantic, on an island off an island off Newfoundland; all profits return to the island community.

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Wilderness icons

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Wilderness icons

Nimmo Bay Wilderness Resort

Great Bear Rainforest · British Columbia · Canada · Wilderness icons

A floating lodge at the foot of a waterfall in the Great Bear Rainforest, reached by helicopter or boat, with nine cabins.

This list grows the way the whole collection does: when we find another stay strange enough to belong here, it is checked against its own official site first — and then it appears. Nothing arrives by copying a listicle.