A high point in Vancouver kitsch.

Fossils, railroads, and waterfalls!

In the back of a bustling factory lurks a quiet museum honoring the history of Canadian sugar manufacturing.

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

One of the last remaining buildings from one of Calgary's earliest businesses.

What happens when a chef with indigenous roots takes over a hotel-restaurant?

This ghost-town bar has bullet holes and plenty of stories lurking within its walls.

As if T-rex wasn't big enough, this Canadian monument is four times larger than the real thing.

Brooklyn vintners creating world-class wine in a city not known for its vineyards.

Here, exhibits come with a side of edible history.

A B.Y.O.B. Mexican cantina lives inside one of the last tortilla factories in Brooklyn.

Crammed into several rooms of a Staten Island home, this museum is a vodka-soaked paean to the pleasures of drinking.

This enormous banquet-themed artwork honors over 1,000 notable women throughout history.

A big shiny gin and whiskey distillery in Sunset Park.

Have a steam and some blini at this cafe in a century-old bathhouse.

Those belting out show tunes might not realize this piano bar marks the site where Thomas Paine died in 1809.

More than 250 sakes are available in an izakaya hidden in the basement of a Midtown office building.

The oldest pastificio in Queens offers visitors fresh noodles and a peek inside the macaroni-making magic.

This speakeasy continues the Prohibition-era legacy of Harlem's jazzy Swing Street.

A hidey-hole sandwiched between cellphone, DVD, and jewelry stores features Tibetan delights.

A Jewish deli run by Yemeni Muslims in an Afro-Caribbean neighborhood is quintessential Brooklyn.

Micro-distillery in Brooklyn produces New York’s first homemade rum since Prohibition.

Every animal in the torah taxidermied and crammed into a Brooklyn townhouse.

The world's largest collection of materials relating to lesbian history is housed in a Brooklyn townhouse.