With its dramatic placement and striking appearance, the Sliding House has become an architectural landmark on the Atlantic coast in Novia Scotia. Set in a coastal community near the town of Lunenberg, a World Heritage Site, the house has drawn international acclaim and is now available as a unique vacation rental.

Located in the small coastal village of Ucluelet, near Tofino on Vancouver Island, this beach house may not be perched at the edge of the earth, as the marketing spiel on the website suggests, but it does have the Pacific Ocean at the bottom of the garden providing a vantage point for some whale spotting over dinner.

These vintage tugboats have been adapted to provide comfortable adventure cruise accommodation for up to 12 people. Visit abandoned canneries and ghost towns as you meander through the calm waters of the Inside Passage, the coastal route between mainland British Columbia and its islands.

Founded in 1997, this wilderness eco-resort is located in Clayoquot Sound near the coastal village of Tofino in British Columbia. Since then it has been providing discerning travellers with an über-camping experience in an enclave comprising: 27 guest tents, lounge tents, massage tents, dining tents and a timber cookhouse.

Since 1979, the Tundra Buggy has been conducting polar bear tour trips from Churchill in Manitoba to the frozen tundra, a mere 30kms away. Guests can observe polar bears round the clock from within the safety and comfort of specialised modules that, when linked end to end, stretch almost 100 metres long.

This is not the new album cover by The Residents but in fact the brainchild of boat-builder Tom Chudleigh. Situated in a private forest close to Horne Lake Caves, these unique tree houses on Vancouver Island borrow concepts from sailboat construction and are suspended from the trees by a series of ropes.