A surviving remnant of the thick ice mass that once mantled most of Western Canada's mountains.

The ruins of the "20-year town" lay out among the mountains of Alberta.

Cascading outward, this waterfall creates the appearance of a flowing veil.

An abandoned logging settlement nestled in the woods near a popular ski town.

At least 14 twice-retired ships were sunk to make a lovely rusting breakwater in Comox Harbour.

Greenery cloaks this serene sculpture inspired by the famous Lost Gardens of Heligan.

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

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

A high point in Vancouver kitsch.

Railways may have forged this quintet of lovely tunnels, but now they are open to hikers.

An old world fairytale-land with over 350 fairy folk figurines hidden amongst 800 year old cedars.

This whimsical castle of grottoes was the labor of love of a French postman, and one of the greatest achievements of outsider architecture.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

This lavish estate recalls the opulent history of Calcutta.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

A beautiful and classically designed villa, with an hourly infestation of monsters.

The only remaining collection of flayed figures made by French "madman" Honoré Fragonard.

Skeletons, medical artifacts, and other obscure and precious treasures all displayed in a wooden pharmacist's cabinet.

Collection of antique taxidermy and natural specimens, near one of Paris's oldest flea markets.

An antique curios dealer and hybrid taxidermist.

A charming flea market shop dedicated to retrofuturistic apparati.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

Inside a former cabaret, seven floors of erotic art.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.