This castle was once considered as an option for the Royal Family's alternate residence, but you may know it better from the 'X-Men' movie.

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

A high point in Vancouver kitsch.

Gigantic private toy museum featuring among finest collections of antique mechanical banks in existence.

This towering totem holds the title for the tallest in the world but only according to some.

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

Unlike many reclaimed, abandoned mines, this Canadian cave system is still just a dangerous maze.

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

A crumbling cliffside ruin hidden in the woods.

The remains of a Canadian train crash are now mouldering beneath layers of rust and graffiti.

A plaque on Canada's Hornby Island commemorates a fantastical creature from a fictional universe.

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

After spending more than a century on the ocean floor, this shipwrecked column is finally resting atop solid ground.

Two graffiti towers stand like ghosts of Vancouver's World War II-era defensive outpost.

A large spinning bath of liquid mercury, used to probe the early universe.

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

The colorful, smiling concrete silos of Vancouver.

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

The stunning remnants of this wreck emerge from an otherworldly backdrop of rainforests.

A hiking area billed as a possible home to Bigfoot.

One of the largest cat sanctuaries in North America is considered a "Club Med" for felines.

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

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