A gorgeous garden oasis with winding paths, stone bridges, and a troubling history.

Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.

The peaceful space is adorned by paintings by the famed abstract artist Mark Rothko.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

A massive Montreal stadium that has seen nothing but trouble since its inception.

The biggest museum dedicated to insects in North America, one of the largest in the world.

This 1967 experiment in modular architecture was designed to be a new model for urban living.

Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.

Smallest house in Toronto sits on a lot meant to be just wide enough for cars to drive through.

A collection of more than 12,000 shoes, displayed in a building shaped like a shoebox.

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

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

A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

Prove you deserve to be fed by Kenny Shopsin.

Slyly buy a shake in the Parker Meridien lobby.

This whimsical group of statues is a favorite of children who love to climb all over Lewis Carroll's beloved characters.

A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt worth a million dollars.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.