The mountaintop wind turbine boasts a viewing deck — and a fair share of controversy.

This expansive bridge in the Canadian wilderness was originally just built for friends.

An effigy of Vancouver's Gastown neighorhood's namesake.

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

This Art Deco masterpiece has stood in for some of the most famous buildings in comic book history.

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

This exaggerated sculpture resembles a well known feature of Vancouver:

This Italianate house was the childhood home of the prominent Canadian painter, Emily Carr.

This historic Victorian hotel has a scandalous history of affairs and murder.

A monument stands at one of the starting lines of the Trans-Canada Highway, formerly the longest uninterrupted highway in the world.

A building so large that it has its own weather.

One of the first canal boat-lift inclines ever created.

This bridge is the first to be made entirely from iron, but designed like it was still made of wood.

A unique flight of canal locks that owe their form to 19th-century cost-saving measures.

The longest canal aqueduct in England was built without a plan to get water past the moving boats.

Known as the "Stairway to Heaven," this historic canal dates back to the 1700s.

This beautifully verdant lagoon is tucked below a massive volcano in a crater atop a black pebble beach.

Visit a surreal landscape so otherworldly NASA actually used it to train the Apollo 17 crew.

The chefs at El Diablo use heat generated by an active volcano to cook the food.

A rotting air force base is now home to rare birds and scarce plants.

This Scottish castle has witnessed clan rivalries, Jacobite uprisings, whisky smuggling, and more.

A former coastal watch post has been turned into a bothy with unrivaled views of the sea and its inhabitants.

The last manually operated turntable ferry in the world.

The most iconic structure in Scotland has been home to bishops, colonels, and Sean Connery characters.