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

Montreal's giant farmer's market is a foodie's best friend, especially in the winter months.

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

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

The vaulted ceiling is home to a scurry of “squirrelgoyles.”

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

Two adjoining collections of 19th-20th century physics apparatuses and instruments.

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

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

Its columns were all carved from the same white oak tree.

Monty Python fans will recognize this abandoned mine as the Cave of the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog.

This deceptively beautiful island was once home to a German concentration camp and known as "Death Island."

The remains of diamond fever taken over by the desert.

Ancient artists in the middle of nowhere.

Far from the shore, this sandy victim of the Skeleton Coast looks like it was plopped in the middle of the desert.

Hitch a boat ride to dine on stilts while watching wildlife.

A desert that rolls right up to the ocean, where it's so dry animals live off the fog.

A rare cluster of alien-like plants grows along a dusty highway.

A rustic place to spend the night, complete with amazing quiver trees and outsider art.

This "dead marsh" sits among the largest sand dunes in the world, a forest frozen in time.

The largest known meteorite on Earth was too big to move.

Unexplained bald patches in the landscape grow and recede over time, as though they are somehow alive.

Tracks of ceratosaurus and Coelophysis rhodesiensis tracks can be found fossilized in the sandstone near Mt. Etjo.

Road signs in Namibia mark the location of one of the five major circles of latitude.