Architectural Oddities in Canada

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

This igloo-shaped landmark in Iqaluit serves as the seat of the Diocese of the Arctic.

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

This chilly Canadian hotel has a four-month lifespan due to the unusual material it's made of.

This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.

This mundane shopping plaza is named after a gruesome piece of flotsam.

This egg-shaped treehouse was inspired by "sport sleeping."

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

This house was largely built out of hundreds of thousands of discarded glass embalming fluid bottles.

The "Crow Boat" of Kootenay Lake, sold for a dollar and now on display as "the world's oldest intact passenger sternwheeler."

This artful dam holds back a crater-made reservoir that can be seen from space.

An operating lighthouse from the 1860s.

The narrowest street in Canada was once a spot for dastardly doings, now a historic piece of Chinatown.

A well-preserved network of cavernous tunnels have spent silent centuries removing Toronto's waste.

Sleep snuggled in a sphere suspended atop the forest canopy of Vancouver Island.

Stunning views over Ontario's old-growth pine forests.