New York's unstoppable progress turned this cemetery into the smallest burial ground in the city.

This exemplar of modernist architecture is meant to captivate and inspire students of the Cooper Union.

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

Love, knishes, and best wishes from this legendary Lower East Side bakery.

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

This whimsical group of statues is a favorite of children who love to climb all over Lewis Carroll's beloved characters.

A hidden "place of interment for gentlemen."

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

These locks on North America’s oldest canal are named after a porcine rock formation.

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

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

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

Possibly the world's largest coin stands just outside of a Canadian science center.

This giant roadside goose has been hailing travelers into a small Ontario town for over 50 years.

Home of mutant livestock.

Medicinal spa created with the discharge from a geothermal energy plant.

An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.

The picturesque birthplace of Icelandic democracy is drenched in the blood of its brutal past.

Akureyri is home to an oversized can of one of Iceland's favourite beers.

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.

This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.