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

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

One of Canada's oldest museums, the beautiful Redpath has been serving up Natural History and Ethnography since 1882.

This 1967 experiment in modular architecture was designed to be a new model for urban living.

This colorful creation wasn't always a welcome part of Toronto's Moccasin Trail Park.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

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

The world's largest outdoor organ is played weekly by one of just two civic organists in the U.S.

One of the largest trees of its kind in California.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

A self-funded cemetery with a long list of inhabitants.

This rare effigy of the author spent years lost in storage.

The bones of this aquatic dinosaur turned to opal over the centuries and the beast's remains were almost sold as jewelry.

This grim museum collects artifacts and evidence of some of the most sensational antipodean crimes.

Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

This 19th-century convent is now a flourishing 21st-century hub for art.

The 18th-century home was disassembled into 253 cases and brought all the way from the other side of the world.

Taxidermy of the racing horse with a huge heart, who inspired hope in the Depression.

Hoodoos, naturally eroded land formations, stand 20 feet tall in the Canadian badlands.

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

The only road through the heart of Glacier National Park.

The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.

A small horde of mythical creatures lurk almost imperceptibly within the museum's wildlife dioramas.

A downtown park built on top of unclaimed graves.