Along with his smaller donkey pal, he guards the museum’s exhibits and memorabilia.

This 12-seat movie theater is the smallest in the world.

The "birthplace of insulin," where Sir Frederick Banting realized the hormone could save the lives of Type 1 diabetics.

This natural sea cave hides a small wonderland of natural turquoise beauty.

This seemingly cursed monument is dedicated to one of Canada's great war heroes.

The tunnel under the Capitol Building where Congress takes out its trash.

Curious onlookers have suspected this strange structure is a secret government base.

An architectural marvel that combines Gothic architecture with Indian elements.

An architectural marvel built by a nearly forgotten Canadian Quaker sect, the Children of Peace.

The world’s largest truck stop includes a barber shop, chiropractor, and a huge museum with antique trucks.

This “peasant café” in the middle of Tokyo re-creates the atmosphere of the Japanese countryside.

Access to this hidden site of a 14th-century mass suicide is prohibited, unless it is to pray for the dead.

Its most grisly object is a jar full of severed fingers allegedly cut off by prisoners to avoid work.

This Japanese treats shop may have been the first business to mass-produce fortune cookies in the United States.

All that remains of the once-booming chain is a single orange-roofed restaurant.

Sit where JFK proposed to Jackie or where Nixon dined on meatloaf at this storied pub.

The tallest city hall in the world offers an excellent bento box.

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

You don't have to be an ambassador to dine like one.

Finally, you don't have to be a pious Swedish seaman to relax like one.

Train tunnel running underneath Quebec City.

A reconstituted ancestral village of the Huron-Wendat Nation.

This former prison now houses a lovely library devoted to Quebec's oft-maligned English-speaking history.

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