This "railway" for boats continues a waterway over a road.

The roofless ruins of a church surrounded by acres of bucolic farmland.

More than 50,000 gannets claim the cliffs of Bonaventure Island.

A reconstituted ancestral village of the Huron-Wendat Nation.

This artful dam holds back a crater-made reservoir that can be seen from space.

This crumbling industrial fortress has attracted daredevils, filmmakers, and historians.

Despite its name this unique art piece was established to commemorate a tragic flood.

This haunted corpse of a drive-in is now a graffiti-covered ruin.

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

The Jewish diaspora shares a menu at this museum café.

This public art pays homage to the baseball legend and civil rights icon and his time in Montreal.

A historic Montreal market that was the city's agricultural hub for over century.

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

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

It's not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music's library has been described as a "cathedral of books."

A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."

The 30,000-volume library is one of the world's most impressive poetry collections.

The "All-Seeing Eye of God" symbol on this library is a clue to one of the many former lives of this building.

An unassuming corner inside downtown Orlando's library offers a whole new world of the park and its history.

With its vaulted ceiling and gilded details, this University of Washington library would feel right at home inside an old palace.

Books you don’t need in a place you can’t find.

According to legend, Bob Dylan sneaks in twice a year to eat dinner with Jack.

Shop for books in the New Orleans house where William Faulkner once lived.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.