This conservatory allows a little bit of the tropics to thrive in the middle of a major Canadian city.

Housing a morgue, rare and confiscated weapons, and autopsy remains, the Vancouver police museum displays the dark side of Canada.

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.

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

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

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

Historic psychiatric asylum and most-filmed location in the Great White North.

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

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

This bustling Italian plaza is built on the ruins of an ancient Roman amphitheater.

Fortified medieval tower house with lovely roof garden.

Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

Rome's semi-secret peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.

The only "Egyptian" pyramid in Europe and the legendary tomb of Remus.

This Roman arch marks the location of an ancient gate at one of the Seven Hills of Rome.

The solemn exterior conceals an opulent interior of this 17th century church.

The 700-year-old fortress was the site of Count Orlok's castle in "Nosferatu."

A perfectly preserved hill village where the buildings are painted like white lace.

Hungarian self-built castle.

A series of caves under Castle Hill that once held the prisoner Vlad Tepes, better known as Count Dracula.

Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.

A random tree outside a Budapest hotel has become a DIY shrine to the late singer.