A sliver of nostalgia in Seattle's Viretta Park.

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

A pixel art killer whale is frozen mid-leap in this Vancouver square.

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

A piece of the iconic wall found an unlikely new home in a Vegas bathroom.

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

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

Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.

Locals dubbed it the "Owl Building" because of its bird-like appearance.

Just like the real 36th president of the United States, animatronic LBJ amuses visitors with jokes and stories.

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

A view-altering observatory at the University of Texas.

This failed condo development was reborn as a street art hub.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

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

A particularly disconcerting tribute to Irish martyrs.

A hugely vast Irish landscape of barren rock that stretches for miles.

An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.

The mummified heart of a saint lives on in this church—after a brief hiatus when it was stolen.

The somber sculptures commemorating Irish Famine on the river Liffey in Dublin.

The comedy and tragedy of Oscar Wilde is preserved in a Dublin park, captured in a sculpture of colorful stone.

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

More than 5,000 artifacts donated by the people of the city, plus a room entirely devoted to the band U2.