Saint Andrews is the most attractive town on the New Brunswick shore of the Bay of Fundy — a well-preserved Loyalist grid town on a point of land where the bay opens into Passamaquoddy Bay near the Maine border. The historic district contains some of the finest 18th and 19th century domestic architecture in Atlantic Canada; several buildings are accessible as museums.
The Ross Memorial Museum presents an important collection of decorative arts in a period house. The St Andrews Blockhouse is one of the few surviving blockhouses from the War of 1812. Whale watching and tidal nature tours operate from the town wharf; the waters around Ministers Island — accessible by car across a tidal bar at low tide — are particularly productive.