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

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

City law dictates that this mountaintop cathedral containing the heart of a saint is to remain the tallest building in town.

Every year, the colorful murals of Montreal get a complete makeover.

Immortalized in bronze, this frazzled student will be glued to his screen for centuries.

One of Canada's oldest museums, the beautiful Redpath has been serving up Natural History and Ethnography since 1882.

One of the world's largest collections of rare medical texts and ephemera.

This mesmerizing kinetic sculpture blossoms endlessly in the breeze.

This hidden park hosts a rogue’s gallery of eccentric architectural obelisks.

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

Two thirds of this Montreal neon icon has survived to flash another day.

Futuristic apartment blocks are the backdrop for Montreal surfers hangin' ten on the Habitat '67 standing wave.

This 1967 experiment in modular architecture was designed to be a new model for urban living.

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

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

A massive Montreal stadium that has seen nothing but trouble since its inception.

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

The only example of a Paris Métro sign in use at a subway station outside of the French capital. 

A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.

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

This inexpensive lodging house was once a prison notorious for its inhumane practices.

Canada's subterranean Cold War museum has doubled as a movie set.

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.