The turquoise-studded skull of a long-dead Aztec man sits within Mexico City’s Museum of Anthropology.

This strange sculpture of a menacing skull surrounded by sun rays was discovered at the foot of the Pyramid of the Sun.

This colossal ancient jaguar sculpture was used as a vessel for the hearts torn from sacrificial victims.

The only castle in North America to ever house European sovereigns.

This colossal ancient sculpture of the monstrous Aztec rain god has a literally stormy history.

These haunting ruins of a 700-year-old Prehispanic city have witnessed centuries of wars and massacres.

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

Montreal's colorful subway station shows its support of the local LGBT+ community.

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

Futuristic apartment blocks are the backdrop for Montreal surfers hangin' ten on the Habitat '67 standing wave.

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

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

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.

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.

The only museum about the history of dentistry in Canada.

City law dictates that this mountaintop cathedral containing the heart of a saint is to remain the tallest building in town.

Two thirds of this Montreal neon icon has survived to flash another day.

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.

The first bridge observation tower in the U.S. offers one of the best views of Maine.

This 19th century granite fortification is one of the most well preserved forts in New England.

Toy museum in a former tavern is the expression of one man's life pursuit of the aesthetic power of cartoon imagery.

Trinkets and toys lovingly handmade by maximum security prisoners.