Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

Depicting scenes of everyday life - and specific individuals - in Great Depression era San Francisco.

A shining, cold, black organ lies in San Francisco's financial district.

One of few lasting examples of the brief octagon craze that developed into folly.

Barely visible foundations remain where Stow Lake’s “observatory” once welcomed visitors.

Alleyway plaque commemorating the death of a fictional character in The Maltese Falcon, not far from the author's home.

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

Where the English trapper who faked a First Nations identity bunked with beavers.

The unusual lighthouse looms over waves of prairies with no sea in sight.

This Canadian exhibit with claims as the largest one man taxidermy collection in North America.

A massive Montreal stadium that has seen nothing but trouble since its inception.

The only town in the world with two exclamation points in its name.

This steep cable railway has been hoisting passengers in the heart of Québec City for over a century.

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

This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.

A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.

Go inside the house that inspired L. M. Montgomery to create one of literature's most beloved heroines.

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

The mastermind behind this palatial hotel perished on the Titanic weeks before its grand opening.