This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.

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

A massive Montreal stadium that has seen nothing but trouble since its inception.

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

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

A 98-room castle in the middle of Toronto that bankrupted a 19th century electricity multimillionaire.

A collection of more than 12,000 shoes, displayed in a building shaped like a shoebox.

A giant telephone commemorates the last "crank" call ever made in the U.S.

This landmark cemetery in Boston was created more than 300 years ago.

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

One of the last remaining World War II Victory Gardens in the U.S. is quietly growing across from Fenway Park.

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

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

This portion of a lovely Belize beach is infested with (harmless) sharks and rays.

Sparkling, calcite-covered skeletons of children who may have been sacrificed to appease an angry god.

This Costa Rican chapel is the most metal church in the world, literally.

On this tiny spot of land in the middle of Lake Titicaca the only ones who do the knitting are the men.

The Uros people live on floating reed islands in lake Titicaca.

These ruined Incan mausoleum towers still bear carvings of sacred animals on their blocks.

A remote candy-striped mountain in the Peruvian Andes straight out of the pages of Dr. Seuss.

These steeply terraced ruins are a stop along the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu.

Preserved Inca city and site of the last Inca stronghold against the Spanish conquistadors.

Huge stone depressions which may have acted as an Incan agricultural experiment.