The New Central Library is a masterpiece of contemporary architecture in the midst of downtown Calgary.

This stately Victorian-era burial ground overlooking the Pacific Ocean is home to the graves of some of British Columbia's most famous figures.

A seven-story wooden coal tipple stands this former mine, the last of many that once covered this area.

This massive and unusual rock formation near Okotoks is the world's largest known glacial erratic.

A small and quirky museum hidden inside a fence.

Sitting empty in a lonely Canadian field is a century-old stone bunker sometimes called "One Man's Castle."

A face emerges from the landscape when seen from the air.

Take a hike to this remote, scenic tea stop in the Canadian Rockies.

A stone troll guards the hike that leads to this waterfall.

Built to supply water to farmers in Alberta, this was once was the world's longest elevated concrete structure.

Few other hotels can rival the grandeur of the Castle in the Rockies.

Live long and prosper in Vulcan, Alberta.

This First Nations monument is a peaceful spot with vast views of the Calgary prairie.

Possibly the world’s easiest Easter-egg hunt.

An automotive, farming machinery, and aviation museum located in Wetaskiwin, Alberta, Canada.

Menacing or in memoriam, the Silent People and their meaning are left to interpretation.

Browse through roughly 130,000 titles in the world's largest independent video rental store.

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

The walls of Germany's Parliament still show the scars of the Red Army takeover in World War II.

A futuristic, brutalist masterpiece that is also strangely prison-like.

This small museum is basically a time capsule of daily life in the Soviet Union.

Hidden in a metro shop under a shopping mall, this small museum tells the story of one of the world's largest urban transit systems.

This frozen-in-time summer home outside Moscow provides a look at Russian life in the 1950s.

A ruined mansion hidden in the woods of the Hudson Valley, home of a tragically doomed romance.