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Since its original beginnings as a weather observatory mountaintop, this facility played an instrumental role in gathering atmospheric data for almost 100 years.

Decorated by local artists, the city's utility boxes have become three-dimensional canvases.

A controversial blue hoop has been puzzling freeway drivers since 2013.

Though many were skeptical at first, these animal-specific routes across the Trans-Canada Highway have been a major conservation success.

The oldest natural history museum in western Canada houses more than 5,000 vintage botanical and zoological specimens.

A Victorian garden in a harsh climate at the border of the prairies and foothills of the Canadian Rockies.

A herd of colorfully painted bovine statues can be found in the middle of "cowtown."

The New Central Library is a masterpiece of contemporary architecture in the midst of downtown Calgary.

Try the alligator at this fondue spot, which has been catering to "lovers and hedonists" since 1967.

Sitting empty in a lonely Canadian field is a century-old stone bunker sometimes called "One Man's Castle."

Eclectic musical collection ranging from hurdy gurdies and orphicas to the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio.

With its webbed walls and bright red coloring, Calgary's iconic bridge looks like a finger trap puzzle stretched across the river.

This First Nations monument is a peaceful spot with vast views of the Calgary prairie.

What happens when a chef with indigenous roots takes over a hotel-restaurant?

Few other hotels can rival the grandeur of the Castle in the Rockies.

The site of a strange super top-secret military experiment during WWII on a remote Canadian lake.

Canada’s surprisingly controversial monument to Dwight Eisenhower.

Statue commemorating the use of ether in anesthesia.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

Harry Houdini plunged into the Charles River and performed one of his escape acts here in 1908.

Dedicated to the neverending mathematical constant, this plaque next to a park bench was sponsored by an anonymous benefactor.

The history of the tea trade is told in bas-relief on this historic pair of Boston doors.

Three abandoned missile silos are hiding in plain sight behind a suburban development in Maryland.

This one-room doctor's office has been moved twice, and now lives on as a museum.