Places BryanKnight Wants to Go

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

This famous church is adorned by a mural commemorating the independence of Vatican City.

This exuberantly curated landscape is one of the largest sculpture gardens in Canada.

This mesmerizing kinetic sculpture blossoms endlessly in the breeze.

From lefty Jewish gathering site to hip cultural site in just 80 years.

Two thirds of this Montreal neon icon has survived to flash another day.

This hidden park hosts a rogue’s gallery of eccentric architectural obelisks.

The vaulted ceiling is home to a scurry of “squirrelgoyles.”

A community-run museum invites visitors to explore Jewish communities before and after the Holocaust.

Futuristic apartment blocks are the backdrop for Montreal surfers hangin' ten on the Habitat '67 standing wave.

Its columns were all carved from the same white oak tree.

City law dictates that this mountaintop cathedral containing the heart of a saint is to remain the tallest building in town.

Small ship votives hang from the vaulted ceiling of this port-side church with a Latin inscription on the wall.

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

Two adjoining collections of 19th-20th century physics apparatuses and instruments.

The biggest museum dedicated to insects in North America, one of the largest in the world.

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

Home inspired by the crystal rock formation of the Emerald Estates.

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

The stunning remnants of this wreck emerge from an otherworldly backdrop of rainforests.

Hoodoos, naturally eroded land formations, stand 20 feet tall in the Canadian Badlands.

A crumbling cliffside ruin hidden in the woods.

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

What was to be the world's most secure Cold War document vault ended up as just a few shallow caves.