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The gloomy ruins that inspired Bram Stoker to bring Dracula to life.

A king's pet, a pope's gift, an artist's inspiration, and a tragic shipwreck.

This mysterious Bronze Age standing stone has become a place where couples profess their love.

All that's left of the quintessential "cabin in the woods."

This colorful creation wasn't always a welcome part of Toronto's Moccasin Trail Park.

This Toronto garden collects stares and tchotchkes in equal measure.

A botanically themed auditorium blooms within the world’s last operating double-decker theater.

The Victorian-era greenhouse is stuffed with tropical plants, and open 365 days a year.

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

The Incredible Hulk, Yoda, Mulder and Scully, and many many others watch over the mean streets of Toronto.

A memorial to the tens of thousands of Irish who fled to North America during the Great Famine.

One of the foremost Sherlock Holmes collections is hidden away at a Toronto library.

A unique collection of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and everything in-between.

A well-preserved network of cavernous tunnels have spent silent centuries removing Toronto's waste.

One of Canada's most incredible rare book collections holds hundreds of thousands of gorgeous tomes that the general public can touch.

A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.

After years of slow decline, a derelict Gothic castle is now being restored to life.

A hermit's tiny cell built into the cliffside that saved him in South Pembrokeshire.

A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.

An 80-year-old plane tree is devouring an iron bench at Ireland's oldest law school.

The mummified heart of a saint lives on in this church—after a brief hiatus when it was stolen.

A gem in the small Missouri town where Winston Churchill coined the term "Iron Curtain" and effectively began the Cold War.

This Seattle joint serves food inside an old train car once used by FDR.

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.