The skyline of Montreal includes the silhouette of an unexpected fruit-shaped Canadian staple.

The competition: breathe deeply as long as you can.

This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

The largest island on the great salt lake is home to curious creatures and strange stories.

Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.

Japan's largest and oldest annual procession of floats, begun in 869.

Home to the Amorphophallus titanum "Corpse Flower," which is among the largest flowers in the world and also smells powerfully of rotting flesh when in bloom.

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

The one-stop shop for all of your superhero (or evil arch-nemesis) needs.

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

The most confusing clock in New York.

A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.

Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.