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Nova Scotia

Things to see in Nova Scotia

33 sights, museums, parks and places worth the stop.

A grassy picnic area with wooden tables and shelters overlooking a wide body of water under a blue sky with contrails.

Wolfville · Coastal & Maritime

Blomidon Provincial Park

The Bay of Fundy has the highest tides in the world, and Blomidon Provincial Park is one of the best places to see what...
A winding coastal highway (the Cabot Trail) curves along steep, forested cliffs overlooking the ocean, with autumn foliage in the foreground and fog obscuring the mountain peaks.

Cape Breton Island · Coastal & Maritime

Cape Breton Highlands National Park

Cape Breton Highlands National Park covers roughly 950 square kilometres, about 235,000 acres, on the northern tip of Ca...
A pavilion beside the seaside path in Point Pleasant Park, Halifax

Halifax · Coastal & Maritime

Point Pleasant Park

Point Pleasant Park is a forested peninsula at the southern tip of Halifax, Nova Scotia, and it is the city’s best-known...
A large, grey-shingled historic building with a red ground-floor facade and a white steeple, situated next to a waterfront with a brick walkway and hanging flower baskets.

Shelburne · Coastal & Maritime

Shelburne Historic Waterfront

Historic Loyalist waterfront in Shelburne, Nova Scotia
A tall, slender lighthouse tower painted with red and white vertical stripes stands on a rocky headland next to a white keeper's house with a red roof, overlooking the ocean under a clear blue sky.

Yarmouth · Architecture

Cape Forchu Lighthouse

1839 lighthouse with keeper’s museum and grounds
A low-angle photograph of a large, multi-story wooden building with white siding, black trim, and a red mansard roof, featuring a prominent corner tower and arched windows.

Lunenburg · Architecture

Lunenburg Academy Museum and Art Gallery

The Lunenburg Academy stands on a hilltop above the old town of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, at 97 Kaulbach Street, and is kn...
A large stone church with a prominent central steeple and a smaller rear steeple, set against a blue sky with a road and other buildings in the foreground.

Cape Breton Island · Coastal & Maritime

Cheticamp

Cheticamp, spelled Chéticamp in French, is the capital of Acadian life on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia. The village...
A wooden boardwalk path lined with distinctive green curved lampposts runs alongside a rocky harbor edge, with a large multi-story building on the right and people walking or sitting along the path.

Halifax · Maritime Museums

Halifax Waterfront Boardwalk

Halifax’s waterfront has one of the longest downtown boardwalks in North America, and the traditional way to see the cit...
Red wooden buildings of the Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic on the Lunenburg waterfront

Lunenburg · Historic Towns

Lunenburg Maritime Heritage Centre

Lunenburg’s maritime story is told along its waterfront rather than within a single building. The town, on Nova Scotia’s...
A wooden boardwalk with teal-painted edges winds along a grassy, rocky mountain ridge overlooking a large body of blue water and forested coastline.

Cape Breton Island · Coastal & Maritime

Skyline Trail

Few walks in Atlantic Canada end the way the Skyline Trail does. After a gentle stroll through spruce and fir on the hig...
A large, ornate, multi-story sandstone building with arched windows and classical architectural details, situated on a city street corner with traffic lights and other buildings nearby.

Halifax · Culture & Leisure

Art Gallery of Nova Scotia

Largest Atlantic art museum in downtown Halifax
A large, reddish-brown sculpture of a fiddle with a bow, standing on a paved plaza in front of a modern building with large glass windows under a clear blue sky.

Cape Breton Island · Monuments

Sydney Waterfront

The Sydney Waterfront is the harbourside stretch of the town of Sydney, on the east coast of Cape Breton Island in Nova...