When the big city meets the edge of the frontier, log skyscrapers are born.

This Niagara Falls tourist trap is a world bright with neon and curiosities that will inspire love, hate, or a mixture of both.

A school teacher's massive and terrifying self-built castle.

This inexpensive lodging house was once a prison notorious for its inhumane practices.

A sprawling Victorian farm that has been surrounded by a capital city is one of Canada's greatest treasures.

A Victorian cemetery hidden along a trucking route is all that remains of a 19th century village.

The statue of the famous elephant who was the original source of the word "jumbo".

A memorial to the tens of thousands of Irish who fled to North America during the Great Famine.

305 homemade stone stairs wind their way up the Hamilton escarpment.

Canada's subterranean Cold War museum has doubled as a movie set.

This Toronto garden collects stares and tchotchkes in equal measure.

An abandoned Victorian-era amusement park is rusting away amidst luxury houses.

Smallest house in Toronto sits on a lot meant to be just wide enough for cars to drive through.

One of Canada's most incredible rare book collections holds hundreds of thousands of gorgeous tomes that the general public can touch.

A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.

Secret Swing.

This crescent-shaped sliver of sand is a magical haven for a herd of feral horses.

After he picked up a brush at the age of 47 this simple barber turned his entire home into a canvas.

This historic Canadian jail was once the longest operating prison in the country and is now open for people to incarcerate themselves.

This Quebec estate is home to the elaborate gardens of a self-taught horticulturist.

An abandoned town centered around a paper mill powered by a large waterfall.

A community-run museum invites visitors to explore Jewish communities before and after the Holocaust.

This steep cable railway has been hoisting passengers in the heart of Québec City for over a century.

Artistic cabins actually grow deep in the Canadian wilderness.