Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

The metal truss bridge served as the sole entry point to an "isolation island" for smallpox outbreaks throughout the 1870s and early 1940s.

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

These prehistoric replicas were based on actual skeletal remains.

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

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

A boardwalk winds above this beautiful bog full of wildlife and a rare type of turtle.

Louise Bourgeois' 30-foot-tall steel spider sculpture.

This historic Canadian jail was once the longest operating prison in the country and is now open for people to incarcerate themselves.

The floating gallery illuminates the heart of Québec City's arts district.

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

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

A reconstituted ancestral village of the Huron-Wendat Nation.

This Quebec estate is home to the elaborate gardens of a self-taught horticulturist.

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

A patch of contaminated land reclaimed as a scrappy sculptural oasis.

This exuberantly curated landscape is one of the largest sculpture gardens in Canada.

A swaggering, monumental souvenir of the most extravagant party Montreal’s ever thrown.

A swirling spectrum of stained glass dazzles visitors who enter this subway station.