A memorial to the tens of thousands of Irish who fled to North America during the Great Famine.

This Quebec estate is home to the elaborate gardens of a self-taught horticulturist.

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

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

This Canadian island is a veritable garden of decay with countless abandoned structures dotting the landscape.

A surviving remnant of the thick ice mass that once mantled most of Western Canada's mountains.

Museum of stuffed gophers set up in various scenes.

A Montreal deli that was so beloved that it was allowed to circumvent their laws of language.

Canada's largest graveyard boasts a lot of noteworthy artifacts as well as its own computerized mapping service.

A school teacher's massive and terrifying self-built castle.

This Niagara Falls tourist trap is a world bright with neon and curiosities that will inspire love, hate, or a mixture of both.

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

Louise Bourgeois' 30-foot-tall steel spider sculpture.

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

A collection of more than 12,000 shoes, displayed in a building shaped like a shoebox.

A renegade art installation in a small Vancouver park is now officially sanctioned by the City Parks Department.

A botanically themed auditorium blooms within the world’s last operating double-decker theater.

What happens when a sculptor has to find a way around a 100-year-old copyright.

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

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

Housing a morgue, rare and confiscated weapons, and autopsy remains, the Vancouver police museum displays the dark side of Canada.

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

This Toronto garden collects stares and tchotchkes in equal measure.