A wonderfully curated used bookstore in an airport.

Robots, lasers, and whoopee cushions, oh my!

This quirky museum has a collection of more than 15,000 bobblehead dolls.

The museum houses one of the world's largest collections of glass paperweights.

The home of 1.5 million wood letters for printing is still a functioning workshop.

Michigan’s most famous shoe tree.

This enchanting forest trail leads to ethereal abodes and a giant bird's nest.

This urban oasis is a marvelous meld of music and landscape architecture.

A memorial to the tens of thousands of Irish who fled to North America during the Great Famine.

One of the foremost Sherlock Holmes collections is hidden away at a Toronto library.

A collection of more than 12,000 shoes, displayed in a building shaped like a shoebox.

This Toronto garden collects stares and tchotchkes in equal measure.

The Victorian-era greenhouse is stuffed with tropical plants, and open 365 days a year.

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

One of Canada's most incredible rare book collections holds hundreds of thousands of gorgeous tomes that the general public can touch.

A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.

Its columns were all carved from the same white oak tree.

The skyline of Montreal includes the silhouette of an unexpected fruit-shaped Canadian staple.

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

A Montreal deli that was so beloved that it was allowed to circumvent their laws of language.

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.

Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.

Ohio's 19th-century communist micro-society.