This two-room factory has been cranking out the musical signifier of zaniness for a century.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

What was once a true peninsula has now been filled in, causing the water to recede and leaving many streetside "waterfronts" and landlocked "islands."

An ever-changing gathering of crude wooden figures haunts the St. Lawrence River.

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

This steep cable railway has been hoisting passengers in the heart of Québec City for over a century.

A natural gas leak provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall.

Ruins of a once-prized railroad station in New York.

This stone gatehouse was once the entrance to a historic mountain resort, and it had a cameo in a cheesy cult horror movie.

The oldest continuously inhabited street in America.

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.

Thousands of tourists and residents in Cologne affix "love padlocks" on the Hohenzollernbrücke Bridge to symbolize their affections.