A swirling spectrum of stained glass dazzles visitors who enter this subway station.

A gift to the children of Boston, this bronze bear represents playfulness, a spirit of love, and the warmth of big hugs.

The first bell ever cast in Boston was cast by Paul Revere...and sounded terrible.

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

The city of Halifax still bears the scars of the largest explosion prior to the atomic bomb.

With a floor made of thick glass, this observation deck offers a full view of Sunwapta Valley's mountains and rivers.

Earth's greatest purely vertical drop at 4,101 feet.

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

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

One of the foremost Sherlock Holmes collections is hidden away at a Toronto library.

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

One of Canada's most incredible rare book collections holds hundreds of thousands of gorgeous tomes that the general public can touch.

This memorial to a murdered empress took 20 years to design, then spent 30 years hidden away in storage.

This sculpture honors the man who was known as the "Righteous Among the Nations."

On Gellért Hill, this statue depicts the tragic tale of lovers divided by the Danube.

Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.

This Budapest bar allows drinkers to leave their mark on the walls, floor, and even ceiling.

A 19th century artistocrat's mansion, turned into a library, hidden in a modern library.

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.