One of the foremost Sherlock Holmes collections is hidden away at a Toronto library.

This massive, ancient stone was disassembled and then put back together again.

Canada's largest dinosaur skeleton was hidden away in storage for more than 40 years.

A fantastic place to see murals, and an important location in the history of Toronto's legal street art scene.

An abandoned 1970s theme park that has been turned into a space for waterfront walking.

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

The displays in this off-the-beaten-path museum highlight the holistic, indigenous methods of healing.

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

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

The giant birds honor two native North American species.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

Look closely and you’ll notice that the color changes a third of the way up the tower.

Perhaps the most scandalous statue of America's first president.

A derelict bit of infrastructure from the canal that once ran through D.C. is landlocked in the heart of the city.

The first memorial dedicated solely to the Black troops who fought for the Union.

A surprising, but overlooked example of geology in the middle of the nation’s capital.

A celebrity from the late Cretaceous period.

A tribute to the pop culture icon overlooks this Washington D.C. intersection.

The school tested mustard gas for the U.S. Army during World War I.

A former major munitions plant that has been converted into a sprawling art space.

The masses at this church incorporate enough moonshine and animal sacrifice that they are no longer recognizably Catholic.

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.

The 5.5-mile ring of steel posts around the Capitol Building is one of the largest (and most uniform) of its kind in the world.

Also known as the Founding Church of Scientology.