Places chrissyml Wants to Go

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

The Jewish diaspora shares a menu at this museum café.

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.

Every year, the colorful murals of Montreal get a complete makeover.

Canada's largest graveyard boasts a lot of noteworthy artifacts as well as its own computerized mapping service.

A Montreal deli that was so beloved that it was allowed to circumvent their laws of language.

One of Canada's oldest museums, the beautiful Redpath has been serving up Natural History and Ethnography since 1882.

Montreal's giant farmer's market is a foodie's best friend, especially in the winter months.

A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.

This 1967 experiment in modular architecture was designed to be a new model for urban living.

Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.

Reverend Franzo Wayne King administers spiritual enlightenment through the music of the jazz legend.

An elaborate gift from Claus Spreckels is now a piece of San Francisco history.

The taxidermied remains of the "last wild grizzly bear in California" and of the symbol of the state of California.

A mysterious painting of the self-declared Emperor of the United States watches over a local hof-brau.

The first AIDS memorial chapel in San Francisco and one of only a few in the U.S.

Faceless white figures loom over the city from the rooftop.