A patch of contaminated land reclaimed as a scrappy sculptural oasis.

A swaggering, monumental souvenir of the most extravagant party Montreal’s ever thrown.

This exuberantly curated landscape is one of the largest sculpture gardens in Canada.

Montreal's colorful subway station shows its support of the local LGBT+ community.

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

The vaulted ceiling is home to a scurry of “squirrelgoyles.”

Two adjoining collections of 19th-20th century physics apparatuses and instruments.

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

Every year, the colorful murals of Montreal get a complete makeover.

Canada's largest graveyard boasts a lot of noteworthy artifacts as well as its own computerized mapping service.

One of Canada's oldest museums, the beautiful Redpath has been serving up Natural History and Ethnography since 1882.

A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.

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.

This sprawling taxidermy collection celebrates the art and history of sport hunting.

Not even a series of devastating fires could keep this odd castle in upstate New York from bouncing back.

An interesting look into 18th-century American history.

A historic recreation of the golden age of the Erie Canal, abandoned for some time, slowly being restored.

In DeWitt, New York, a blanket-wrapped gas station makes a creative statement on global dependence on oil.

A reversed traffic signal that was once violently misinterpreted as a statement on British-Irish relations.

Opened in 1947, this is the oldest continuously-operating drive-in theater in New York.

A Seussian sculpture made of brass instruments.

The Fox Sisters, America's leading mediums in the mid-19th century, possessed a table they claimed helped them "communicate" with the dead.

The floor-to-ceiling collection in an old factory is a unique alternative to stuffy galleries.