Want weird? Manitoba has plenty of peculiar places to visit this summer
Bored of the beach? Cold to camping? Looking for something more offbeat to visit this summer?
Manitoba has no shortage of the quirky and curious options — not to mention medieval, otherworldly, ghostly and just plain magical.
"Manitoba brings out the explorer in you because it's is the kind of place where you need to scratch beneath the surface," said Jillian Recksiedler with Travel Manitoba.
"And when you do, you unearth fascinating tales and discover really some offbeat attractions. You feel like you're discovering something for the first time, something very few people know about."
Chris Rutkowski, a Winnipeg science writer who "specializes in the strange and unusual" and is the author of Unnatural History: True Manitoba Mysteries, echoed that appraisal.
"I would say that Manitoba has a wonderful history of the offbeat and unusual that doesn't make most tourist guidebooks."
Within the province are sites related to the spiritual, the supernatural and the sacred, he said.
"This province has a lot more than we give it credit for. The more I explore, the more my mind is blown," added Recksiedler.
On that note, here are a few suggestions:
