Skagway, Alaska
The Golden North Hotel
A classic gold rush hotel can be expected to pick up some ghosts along the way, and the Golden North is no exception.
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Skagway, Alaska
A classic gold rush hotel can be expected to pick up some ghosts along the way, and the Golden North is no exception.
Skagway, Alaska
A tiny wilderness cemetery commemorates the deadliest episode of the Klondike Gold Rush.
Skagway, Alaska
A historic freight system that found the true gold rush is in tourism.
Montreal, Québec
Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.
Montreal, Québec
This 1967 experiment in modular architecture was designed to be a new model for urban living.
Montreal, Québec
A massive Montreal stadium that has seen nothing but trouble since its inception.
Montreal, Québec
A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.
Montreal, Québec
The only example of a Paris Métro sign in use at a subway station outside of the French capital.
Montreal, Québec
A Montreal deli that was so beloved that it was allowed to circumvent their laws of language.
Montreal, Québec
This crumbling industrial fortress has attracted daredevils, filmmakers, and historians.
Montreal, Québec
From lefty Jewish gathering site to hip cultural site in just 80 years.
Montreal, Québec
Canada's largest graveyard boasts a lot of noteworthy artifacts as well as its own computerized mapping service.
Montreal, Québec
Montreal's giant farmer's market is a foodie's best friend, especially in the winter months.
Kingston, Ontario
This sculpture was made in 1973 for the city's 300th-anniversary celebrations and was largely considered an eyesore at the time.
Cloyne, Ontario
This water-locked cliff face is covered in hundreds of ancient pictographs.
Cloyne, Ontario
A massive, fading granite poem is all that remains of one Whitman superfan's tribute to the famous writer.
Brockville, Ontario
Canada's oldest railway tunnel is illuminated in a rainbow of color as it passes under the streets of this small city.
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada's subterranean Cold War museum has doubled as a movie set.
Chelsea, Québec
The remains of a paranoid inventor's hidden workshop lie in beautiful ruins amidst a Canadian park.
Ottawa, Ontario
A boardwalk winds above this beautiful bog full of wildlife and a rare type of turtle.
Ottawa, Ontario
These locks on North America’s oldest canal are named after a porcine rock formation.
Ottawa, Ontario
A sprawling Victorian farm that has been surrounded by a capital city is one of Canada's greatest treasures.
Ottawa, Ontario
Louise Bourgeois' 30-foot-tall steel spider sculpture.
Ottawa, Ontario
The mastermind behind this palatial hotel perished on the Titanic weeks before its grand opening.