Places hymeneinstein Wants to Go

Small ship votives hang from the vaulted ceiling of this port-side church with a Latin inscription on the wall.

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

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

The skyline of Montreal includes the silhouette of an unexpected fruit-shaped Canadian staple.

Canada's largest graveyard boasts a lot of noteworthy artifacts as well as its own computerized mapping service.

Montreal's giant farmer's market is a foodie's best friend, especially in the winter months.

Two adjoining collections of 19th-20th century physics apparatuses and instruments.

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

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

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

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

One devoted couple has donated multiple recreations of Michelangelo's sculptures to this South Dakota town.

Hidden behind Lincoln's head is a chamber containing enamel plates documenting American history, sealed in a teakwood box in a titanium vault.

Despite repeated attempts to make it work, this former mining town is now nothing but dust and memories.

The deserted railroad town had a last gasp as a ghost town attraction before being abandoned for good.

The only substantial part of Nazi Germany's formidable defensive line through Northern Italy that survives today, largely intact.

A little-known sculpture park of contemporary environmental art in a Lapland forest.

A historic neighborhood church is reborn as a psychedelic arts collective.

The 14th-century ruins are said to contain healing powers.

A semi-abandoned replica of Prince Edward Island's Avonlea—in Japan.

These Japanese gardens are blankets of light for dark winter nights.

An ancient Chinese temple where even the emperor dressed like a farmer in the name of the harvest.

Urine-soaked Chinese eggs.

A replica of the Statue of Liberty watches over the tomb of 72 Chinese revolutionaries.