A monument to the 17,000 Chinese who worked and died to build Canada's Pacific Railway.

A school teacher's massive and terrifying self-built castle.

One of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World holds the world's tallest metal staircase.

These strikingly barren, rolling red hills were caused by bad farming practices.

Reputedly the smallest jail in North America.

This impressive working clock made of 16,000 plants changes its flowers twice a year.

This giant roadside fruit is home to an array of apple-based treats.

Over 60 chemical plants and oil refineries sit in a 15-mile-wide section outside town.

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

A swaggering, monumental souvenir of the most extravagant party Montreal’s ever thrown.

An architectural marvel built by a nearly forgotten Canadian Quaker sect, the Children of Peace.

This engineering marvel is the longest bridge in Canada and one of the longest spans in the world.

The giant birds honor two native North American species.

A World War II gun battery sits at the easternmost point of North America.

On the waterfront of Sydney, Nova Scotia, a 60-ft. fiddle greets incoming ships.

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

Thanks to its curved shape, this incredibly durable dam "whispers" to visitors.

An arresting temple full of mosaics as colorful as the politician they memorialize.

A forlorn fishing village on the coast of Labrador, full of shipwrecks and Spanish gold.

A small museum houses a long, rich history of life and death on Lake Erie — from famous shipwrecks to rum smugglers.

A sprawling Victorian farm that has been surrounded by a capital city is one of Canada's greatest treasures.

This urban oasis is a marvelous meld of music and landscape architecture.

This shack nestled in a 120-acre forest of maple trees in Mont-Rigaud is a wonderland of sugary syrup.

The only town in the world with two exclamation points in its name.