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

This Elizabethan hedge maze is one of only six in North America.

This urban oasis is a marvelous meld of music and landscape architecture.

The Incredible Hulk, Yoda, Mulder and Scully, and many many others watch over the mean streets of Toronto.

Willy Wonka would love this weird half-a-home.

This Toronto garden collects stares and tchotchkes in equal measure.

A collection of human remains, animal body parts, and other macabre curiosities all legally for sale.

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

A 98-room castle in the middle of Toronto that bankrupted a 19th century electricity multimillionaire.

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

At first glance, this area seems like just another city park, but the lush landscape hides a dark past.

A memorial to the beloved brown bear that served in the Polish army during World War II.

St. Mary's features one of the most spectacularly decorated cathedral interiors in all of Europe.

Straight out of a nightmare, barcode-faced babies climb up and down Prague's television tower.

A massive, abstract lookout tower providing a panoramic view of Prague.

One of the famous Czech artist's lesser-known Prague installations appears to be a glowing fetus affixed to a drainpipe.

A controversial artwork draws attention to the dark history of Prague's "Suicide Bridge."

The slender brass strip in Prague's Old Town Square was used to tell time from 1652 to 1918.

Bullet holes in the church wall are a reminder of the violence that followed the assassination of a high-ranking Nazi officer.

This walkway is so narrow it needs its own light to stop pedestrian traffic jams.

Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.

This automated sculpture of two men peeing will spell out text messages with their micturition.

A 400-year-old mummified arm dangles from the ceiling of St. James the Greater, serving as a warning to thieves.

What looks like a suicide in progress is actually a statue of Sigmund Freud.