Joggins Fossil Cliffs

Twice a day the Bay of Fundy's huge tides scour the cliffs at Joggins, peeling back fresh pages of the world's thickest and most complete record of the Coal Age. Along 14.7 kilometres of Nova Scotia shore, strata laid down 318 to 303 million years ago preserve fossil rainforest trees and the tracks and remains of some of the earliest reptiles, all in their original positions — a wealth that earned the site its nickname of 'coal age Galápagos'. UNESCO inscribed the cliffs in 2008.