This illuminated sign was the first of its kind in Canada and remains a vestige of the Atomic Age.

These prehistoric replicas were based on actual skeletal remains.

Now a public art piece, this curious metal feature originally advertised a tinsmith's services.

A 1995 memorial acknowledges the tremendous contributions of Vietnamese refugees to Canada.

These locks on North America’s oldest canal are named after a porcine rock formation.

A sprawling Victorian farm that has been surrounded by a capital city is one of Canada's greatest treasures.

This huge ship ran aground and has simply been left to sit there ever since.

The remains of a paranoid inventor's hidden workshop lie in beautiful ruins amidst a Canadian park.

This defunct Champlain Oil service station harkens back to the early days of automobiles.

Canada's subterranean Cold War museum has doubled as a movie set.

Cliffs that hold fossils, including the earliest known reptile, dating back more than 300 million years.

Unfinished monument to peace between Turkey and Armenia, long divided by a dispute over genocide.

One of the most exquisite Lycian hilltop citadels in Turkey.

An underground network of massive stone arches and their skylit vaults support ruins of portico structures above.

A small mountain at the crossroads of Turkey, Iraq, and Syria that some believe was the landing point of Noah's Ark.

These ruins once flourished as the capital of the Lydian kingdom, often credited with the invention of metal coinage.

A surprising and unconventional mosque hidden in the subsoil of Istanbul.

Remnants of successive wars and Muslim colonialism in the 11th century.

Climb a set of vertiginous stone steps to the top of this impressive ancient edifice.

This ancient abandoned church in a remote part of Turkey is in danger of falling over.

This beautiful train graveyard is one of the largest collections of steam locomotives in the Mediterranean and Europe.

Natural rock formation, or biblical artifact that saved Earth's wildlife two by two?

This crumbling medieval basilica once attracted pilgrims by the thousands to collect a miraculous dust that formed above the saint's tomb.

This half-forgotten fortress was constructed by the Ottoman conqueror of Constantinople.