A floating McDonald's built for Expo '86 is now a derelict relic on Burrard Inlet.

While these wooden totems bear a striking resemblance to First Nations artwork of British Columbia, their actual origins lay on the opposite side of the Pacific Ocean.

This Italianate house was the childhood home of the prominent Canadian painter, Emily Carr.

This historic Victorian hotel has a scandalous history of affairs and murder.

One of Ireland's most infamous prisons for rebels including men, women and children.

A particularly disconcerting tribute to Irish martyrs.

This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.

Dublin's "Dead Zoo" serves as a window to Victorian museum design.

The comedy and tragedy of Oscar Wilde is preserved in a Dublin park, captured in a sculpture of colorful stone.

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

The somber sculptures commemorating Irish Famine on the river Liffey in Dublin.

The modern birthplace of Irish freedom.

Housing a morgue, rare and confiscated weapons, and autopsy remains, the Vancouver police museum displays the dark side of Canada.

A beach made of semi-precious green sand on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi.

These picturesque Hawaiian falls are home to a rare species of fish that uses a special sucker to climb up cliffs.

Earth's tallest volcano is sacred to Native Hawaiians, and home to a dozen world-class observatories.

A controversial memorial at the place where Captain Cook met his violent end.

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

The narrowest street in Canada was once a spot for dastardly doings, now a historic piece of Chinatown.

An operating lighthouse from the 1860s.

Tracks of ceratosaurus and Coelophysis rhodesiensis tracks can be found fossilized in the sandstone near Mt. Etjo.

This "dead marsh" sits among the largest sand dunes in the world, a forest frozen in time.

Bizarre living fossil only grows in a small chunk of the Namib Desert.

The world's largest impact crater is mainly eroded but still remembers the planet's violent history.