This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

This bustling Italian plaza is built on the ruins of an ancient Roman amphitheater.

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

A Nesting Doll of Churches.

This museum of Hawaiian and Polynesian culture is the legacy of the last descendant of the Kamehameha Dynasty.

A high point in Vancouver kitsch.

The colorful, smiling concrete silos of Vancouver.

This quirky piece of naval artillery has been deafening Canadians for over a century.

After spending more than a century on the ocean floor, this shipwrecked column is finally resting atop solid ground.

The collection of signage remembers the midcentury pushback against the new neon light.

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

This popular bar has been blurring the line between normal and edgy for more than 75 years.

This country market harbors goats on its roof.

This quirky countryside store is known for the goats that hang out and eat the grass on its roof.

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

From mining complex to industrial exhibition, this museum once played a major part in the X-Files.

Bird dung painted this huge boulder which in turn inspired the name of a city.

An American city stranded at the tip of a Canadian peninsula where strict adherence to the "49th parallel rule" became problematic.

Historic psychiatric asylum and most-filmed location in the Great White North.

While these wooden totems bear a striking resemblance to First Nations artwork of British Columbia, their actual origins lay on the opposite side of the Pacific Ocean.

A floating McDonald's built for Expo '86 is now a derelict relic on Burrard Inlet.

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

Vancouver's only resting place for the city's deceased.