Architecture in Canada

Willy Wonka would love this weird half-a-home.

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

The oldest building in Vancouver's Chinatown is now home to one of Canada’s largest contemporary art collections.

This igloo-shaped landmark in Iqaluit serves as the seat of the Diocese of the Arctic.

When the big city meets the edge of the frontier, log skyscrapers are born.

This chilly Canadian hotel has a four-month lifespan due to the unusual material it's made of.

This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.

This mundane shopping plaza is named after a gruesome piece of flotsam.

This egg-shaped treehouse was inspired by "sport sleeping."

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

This Art Deco masterpiece has stood in for some of the most famous buildings in comic book history.

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

This house was largely built out of hundreds of thousands of discarded glass embalming fluid bottles.

The "Crow Boat" of Kootenay Lake, sold for a dollar and now on display as "the world's oldest intact passenger sternwheeler."

Outsider art meets hard scrabble mountain life in this woodcarver's home/art piece.

This artful dam holds back a crater-made reservoir that can be seen from space.