Once a favorite playground for the world's most illustrious guests, Hotel Nacional's secret weapons and bunkers reveal a more menacing side to its golden history.

A focal point of the Cuban government, this city square features one of the most iconic images in the country.

The capital of the Cayman Islands is a center of offshore banking, but gets battered by blistering hurricanes.

Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.

Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works.

An island filled with hundreds of hanging, decomposing, decapitated dolls.

This crumbling industrial fortress has attracted daredevils, filmmakers, and historians.

This exuberantly curated landscape is one of the largest sculpture gardens in Canada.

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

This haunted corpse of a drive-in is now a graffiti-covered ruin.

Montreal's colorful subway station shows its support of the local LGBT+ community.

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

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

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

A contemporary fresco movement illustrates the region's rich history.

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

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

Small ship votives hang from the vaulted ceiling of this port-side church with a Latin inscription on the wall.

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

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

The biggest museum dedicated to insects in North America, one of the largest in the world.

The skyline of Montreal includes the silhouette of an unexpected fruit-shaped Canadian staple.

The remains of a paranoid inventor's hidden workshop lie in beautiful ruins amidst a Canadian park.

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