A renegade art installation in a small Vancouver park is now officially sanctioned by the City Parks Department.

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

This historic Victorian hotel has a scandalous history of affairs and murder.

A pixel art killer whale is frozen mid-leap in this Vancouver square.

While these wooden totems bear a striking resemblance to First Nations artwork of British Columbia, their actual origins lay on the opposite side of the Pacific Ocean.

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

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

This expansive bridge in the Canadian wilderness was originally just built for friends.

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

This faux-seedy Japanese arcade is made up to look like a maze of alleys straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia.

The world's shortest escalator doesn't seem to have any reason to exist other than to hold a world record.

A rare festival blending religion, blacksmiths, vagina dentata, sex workers, and the straight-up facts of life.

These spooky and unusual stone formations create an underworldly landscape.

One of its engravings is believed to be among the first representations of medical and surgical instruments.

The largest known Ancient Egyptian obelisk.

This ancient structure is widely thought to be the oldest intact pyramid in the world.

These Egyptian statues have survived for 3,400 years and were an acoustic wonder of the ancient world.

One of the most well-preserved temples of ancient Egypt.

An endless sea of white conical domes.

This well-preserved Cistercian Abbey in a romantic pastoral setting has inspired artists like the poet Wordsworth.

A subterranean playground in an abandoned slate mine.

All that remains of the only English cathedral destroyed in the Protestant Reformation.

The bombed out remains of the old church were kept intact next to the new one, as a reminder of the futility of war.

The most loyal of little dogs, or a Victorian era publicity stunt?