This Hindu temple is an architectural marvel designed and built according to ancient Indian principles.

A monument to the 17,000 Chinese who worked and died to build Canada's Pacific Railway.

This unusual structure may be on its way to becoming a cultural landmark in Toronto.

The oldest landmark of Toronto is a testament to shifting sands.

The Incredible Hulk, Yoda, Mulder and Scully, and many many others watch over the mean streets of Toronto.

This colorful creation wasn't always a welcome part of Toronto's Moccasin Trail Park.

A botanically themed auditorium blooms within the world’s last operating double-decker theater.

Willy Wonka would love this weird half-a-home.

This Toronto garden collects stares and tchotchkes in equal measure.

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.

Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and until recently, the largest glass mural in the US.

A clone-tree in Washington Square Park sprung from seeds that went to the Moon and back.

This little-known collection holds everything from "Dracula" notes, to the manuscript of "Ulysses," to the forged works of Shakespeare.

This hidden gem of a garden has one of the only surviving Victorian ferneries in America.

One artist's love letter to his city and its citizens plays out across dozens of bright murals painted on the sides of decrepit buildings.

One of the oldest log cabins in America is one of the last of its kind this historic Swedish dwelling remains a piece of living history.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

Where America's first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.

The press that first printed the Book of Mormon.

A field in which God and his son Jesus purportedly appeared to a young farm boy named Joseph Smith.

Golden plates containing what would become the Book of Mormon were believed to be buried on this New York hillside.

This statue commemorates the meeting of the most influential minds of the women’s rights movement.

What remains of the simple red brick chapel where the women's rights movement began.