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A moody and picturesque riverside ruin overgrown with vegetation.

Art Nouveau beauty hidden deep in Cairo’s Al-Helmiya neighborhood.

A charming, homemade vending machine dispenses burgers and sandwiches at this hole-in-the-wall bakery.

A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.

A few hidden stones are said to bring fortune and love.

The best place in the world to buy tinned fish.

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

A former Canadian Pacific Railway station turned liquor store, the first and only station in Canada visited by British royalty.

Lost subway station nestled beneath Toronto's busy commuter line.

The giant birds honor two native North American species.

305 homemade stone stairs wind their way up the Hamilton escarpment.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

This beautiful Victorian ironwork masterpiece was built to keep London from smelling like poop.

Neither Spanish settlers nor anyone since has been able to tell who built these strange California rock walls.

This quaint museum taps into the sweet history of the maple syrup industry.

The oldest landmark of Toronto is a testament to shifting sands.

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

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

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.