A famous hotel houses an impression collection of mini dioramas and giant doll houses.

An American city stranded at the tip of a Canadian peninsula where strict adherence to the "49th parallel rule" became problematic.

This conservatory allows a little bit of the tropics to thrive in the middle of a major Canadian city.

A renegade art installation in a small Vancouver park is now officially sanctioned by the City Parks Department.

Housing a morgue, rare and confiscated weapons, and autopsy remains, the Vancouver police museum displays the dark side of Canada.

Historic psychiatric asylum and most-filmed location in the Great White North.

Peace Park and the Atomic Bomb Dome.

One of the first hotel rooms in a pod.

Japanese national treasure originally built in 593 CE.

After a profound show of devotion for his master, a dog becomes the symbol of loyalty for an entire nation.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

Possibly the oldest church in Barcelona, this basilica has its pagan and Christian mythologies all mixed up.

Metro station with a claim to rock n' roll fame.

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.

This lurid German fountain plots the sad course of marriage from dating to death.

Germany's Glienicke Bridge has a shady history of clandestine meetings, espionage, and spycraft.

A castle from the Holy Roman Empire that hosts traveling youth... in its stables.

Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

The "Prussian Versailles" that is as glorious today as when it was built.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

An abandoned NSA listening post on Berlin's "Devil's Mountain."