Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.

An Aztec snake god has taken the material form of an apartment complex.

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

Twelve natural mummies are displayed in the crypt of this former monastery school.

Nearly three decades since the fall of the Soviet Union, the hero of the USSR still stands over Belarus.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

An outstanding piece of retro Sci-Fi architecture built into a sacred mountain.

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.

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

This sprawling collection of saintly relics includes such fascinations as wood from the Cross of Jesus and threads from Mary's veil.

Despite its name this unique art piece was established to commemorate a tragic flood.

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

This former prison now houses a lovely library devoted to Quebec's oft-maligned English-speaking history.

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

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

A community-run museum invites visitors to explore Jewish communities before and after the Holocaust.

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

A well-preserved network of cavernous tunnels have spent silent centuries removing Toronto's waste.

A 98-room castle in the middle of Toronto that bankrupted a 19th century electricity multimillionaire.

A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.

Ruins and statues dot the landscape of this tiny island rich with royal history.

This temple is steeped in local folklore involving a teakettle and a raccoon dog.

This beautiful Japanese garden is a memorial to the samurai who literally wrote the book on business as martial art.

One of the world's largest ancient burial mounds.