A hat for every occasion can be found in this British Columbia haunt.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

Beneath the southern end of the Golden Gate Bridge is the “Gibraltar of the West Coast,” a fort built to protect the San Francisco Bay from naval attack.

A historic Montreal market that was the city's agricultural hub for over century.

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

Its columns were all carved from the same white oak tree.

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

A contemporary fresco movement illustrates the region's rich history.

This taxidermy scene brings the struggle for survival in the Indian jungle to a quiet corner of a Manhattan museum.

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

This attraction is devoted to the wonders of steam power and features a replica of one of its most public disasters.

The building that once housed the dictator's secret police is now a museum that documents the history of an oppressive regime and those who fought against it.

A trio of waterfalls inside the world’s largest urban forest.

This 17th-century Portuguese fort now houses a nautical museum.