Find the same amazing scenery as Glacier National Park in a cheaper, more low-key setting at these underrated parks.

Like Pyramid Creek itself, Pyramid Falls was born of a glacier. The tandem are two of myriad natural spectacles in British Columbia and the Canadian Rockies that illustrate the splendor of glaciation.

"That's the plane," says our guide, Dominik Nellen, pointing. Below us on the Aletsch glacier is the wreck of a Piper Cherokee aircraft lost in 1968. Hidden for more than half a century ...

Or else it has lingered, creating vast glaciers that replenish themselves year after year. At least, that used to be the way. Now, that Icelandic ice is doing something else, something that could ...