1. Charlottetown. Heritage buildings, including the ornate St. Dunstan's Basilica and elegant Beaconsfield Historic House, line the city streets. The Confederation Centre of the Arts is the city's major cultural hub with an art gallery, museum, and theaters, where the Anne of Green Gables musical is performed each summer.
2. PEI National Park occupies much of the island's central, northern coastline. Three sections of the park offer beaches, wildlife watching, outdoor activities, historic buildings, and other attractions.
3. Tour Anne of Green Gables Sights. As Juliet has done with Verona, the fictional Anne of Green Gables has so captured readers' and viewers' imaginations that she has imbued the setting for her story with a magic of its own. Anne's author, Lucy Maud Montgomery, lived in Cavendish, and it became the mythical Avonlea of Anne's girlhood in her 1908 book that begins the series.
4. Basin Head Provincial Park. Visitors delight in scuffing their feet along the sands to try and create a distinct "singing" noise, and the squeaky beach is nicknamed Singing Sands. The squeak is caused by the high amount of silica and quartz in the fine sand.
5. Confederation Bridge. The 12.9-kilometer bridge is the world's longest over freezing water and considered one of Canada's top engineering accomplishments of the 20th century. Crossing the curving bridge from New Brunswick is a thrilling experience, and the first town visitors reach in PEI is Borden-Carleton, from which you get the best view of the majestic bridge.
6. North Cape is less visited than the rest of PEI, which gives its small towns and countryside a quiet almost undiscovered feel.
7. Summerside is the second largest city on Prince Edward Island. The island's western hub has a number of historic buildings, a picturesque waterfront district, and a vibrant cultural scene.
8. The Bottle Houses. A six-gabled house, a hexagonal tavern, and a chapel furnished with pews and an altar are built by the late Édouard Arsenault from glass and cement. This ultimate recycling project began in 1980, with bottles Arsenault and his daughter Réjeanne collected from a local restaurant, community dance halls, friends, and neighbors.
9. Victoria-by-the-Sea. Today, a theater, chocolate shop, fishing wharf, glass and pottery studios, and Victoria Seaport Lighthouse Museum are favorite tourist attractions in the friendly community.
10. St. Dunstan's Basilica Cathedral is a National Historic Site and an outstanding example of the High Victorian Gothic style more common in Quebec churches.