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An architecturally-focused antique shop.

These curious caverns have been home to mushrooms, gangsters, and disco.

The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.

Half of a waterfall goes into the river while the other half seems to disappear.

This large midwestern cavern features impressive rock formations and an underground waterfall.

A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.

The only Bahá'í house of worship in North America and one of only a handful worldwide.

Though its branches are painted bright colors by generations of locals, the tree is said to be a haunted portal to hell.

A Canadian POW for German soldiers during WWII where prisoners hatched an elaborate escape plan.

This extensive nuclear fallout shelter built from 42 school buses could house 500 people in its tunnels.

This Toronto garden collects stares and tchotchkes in equal measure.

Secret Swing.

A 2,000-foot rainbow-painted bike path marks Toronto’s historic LGBTQ+ beach.

This knick-knack-covered house (complete with a matching van) is a charming oddity in the middle of a modest downtown neighborhood.

This Hindu temple is an architectural marvel designed and built according to ancient Indian principles.

The Victorian-era greenhouse is stuffed with tropical plants, and open 365 days a year.

A collection of human remains, animal body parts, and other macabre curiosities all legally for sale.

One of Canada's most incredible rare book collections holds hundreds of thousands of gorgeous tomes that the general public can touch.

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

A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.

Among the cliffs of the Elora Gorge is an oft-overlooked piece of celebratory graffiti.

Clusters of abandoned buildings hint at the facility's 144-year history with psychiatric health.