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

The collection of signage remembers the midcentury pushback against the new neon light.

A high point in Vancouver kitsch.

Traditional 15th century Chinese garden in the middle of Vancouver.

This Art Deco masterpiece has stood in for some of the most famous buildings in comic book history.

This knick-knack-covered house (complete with a matching van) is a charming oddity in the middle of a modest downtown neighborhood.

This Toronto garden collects stares and tchotchkes in equal measure.

Lost subway station nestled beneath Toronto's busy commuter line.

All of the Malaysian sweets at this shop are made daily with a whole lot of love.

The impeccably spiced roast pork buns at this bakery are worth the wait.

The Kalamazoo factory has 100 years of instrument-making, and one big wartime secret.

This French Canadian classic is a specialty of the oldest continually used church in Minneapolis.

Dine at a legendary after-hours joint frequented by David Bowie and Iggy Pop.

One of the last of the great 1920s movie palaces is a Floridian Greco-Spanish-Persian dreamscape.

This century-old cinema is complete with musical interludes and boasts a rare projection system.

The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

This iconic tattoo shop has its own onsite museum with artifacts from the early history of modern body art.

Deep into the lower floors of Pike Place, find a date with fowl fate.

Between 1930 and 1946, a tobacco farmer laid his beloved horses and mules to rest in this small patch of pine forest.

A luxurious doomsday bunker hidden beneath an unassuming Las Vegas home offers the best of subterranean suburbia.

This mansion on an island off the coast of Georgia once belonged to a 108-year-old heiress.

The abandoned "Ghost Mansion" was left to decay in the mountains of Northern Italy.