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

Now a public art piece, this curious metal feature originally advertised a tinsmith's services.

The mastermind behind this palatial hotel perished on the Titanic weeks before its grand opening.

This inexpensive lodging house was once a prison notorious for its inhumane practices.

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

A hiking area billed as a possible home to Bigfoot.

Canada's largest graveyard boasts a lot of noteworthy artifacts as well as its own computerized mapping service.

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

This museum housed in a former brothel explores the past and present of sex work in Amsterdam.

This observation tower is a longstanding, 1960s landmark in the Thousand Islands region of Canada.

This sculpture was made in 1973 for the city's 300th-anniversary celebrations and was largely considered an eyesore at the time.

A fake block of cheese remembers a feat of dairy engineering from the Chicago World's Fair.

A tribute to the man who invented basketball stands in his Canadian hometown.

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

The metal truss bridge served as the sole entry point to an "isolation island" for smallpox outbreaks throughout the 1870s and early 1940s.

Despite the name, the waters of this Canadian lake are actually blue-green in color.

Dedicated to the writer who immortalized the use of the poppy as a symbol of remembrance of those who died in wars.

These prehistoric replicas were based on actual skeletal remains.

A 1995 memorial acknowledges the tremendous contributions of Vietnamese refugees to Canada.

A rare venue to buy specialty maps.

This illuminated sign was the first of its kind in Canada and remains a vestige of the Atomic Age.

This defunct Champlain Oil service station harkens back to the early days of automobiles.

Canada's oldest railway tunnel is illuminated in a rainbow of color as it passes under the streets of this small city.

Three young men who lived on this street are honored for their service during World War I.