The origins of midtown Manhattan's anachronistic wooden farmhouse remain a mystery.

Need to book a room at the Hotel Pennsylvania? Just dial up 6-5000.

Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

Trick water gardens from 1619 featuring a 200 piece mechanical theater powered by water.

This skeleton-filled altar piece served as a backdrop to one of the most iconic scenes in "The Sound of Music."

The world's oldest known salt mine.

An Austrian house of bones filled with hundreds of intricately painted skulls.

Beautiful hillside Vermont cemetery with amazing funerary art.

The "original web site," this farm in Northern Vermont encourages orb-weaver spiders to build their daily webs, and then sells the preserved masterpieces.

A small chapel celebrating the spiritual bond between dogs and humans.

This "common-as-dirt" museum celebrates the glory of normalcy.

This unusual building straddles two countries.

This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.

A 400-square foot model of historic Quebec is the playing field for a state of the art light and sound show.

A Montreal deli that was so beloved that it was allowed to circumvent their laws of language.

Montreal's giant farmer's market is a foodie's best friend, especially in the winter months.

Small ship votives hang from the vaulted ceiling of this port-side church with a Latin inscription on the wall.

One of Canada's oldest museums, the beautiful Redpath has been serving up Natural History and Ethnography since 1882.

A stockpile of childhood lunch pails turned collectibles.

A former taxidermist has turned his old shop into a folk art mecca.