This scenic waterfront swimming pool is the longest salt water pool in North America.

The ruins of Vancouver's abandoned heritage railway.

The colorful, smiling concrete silos of Vancouver.

A renegade art installation in a small Vancouver park is now officially sanctioned by the City Parks Department.

What happens when a sculptor has to find a way around a 100-year-old copyright.

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

This Elizabethan hedge maze is one of only six in North America.

This massive monument honors the first human in space.

This newly renovated Soviet-era outdoor exhibition center is bigger than the principality of Monaco.

A 360 degree battlefield experience.

The avant-garde design was able to bypass strict Soviet regulations on architecture.

The world's first museum dedicated to the work of game-changing naturalist Charles Darwin.

The tallest hotel in Europe.

Moscow's imposing monument to the Space Age.

Moscow's most popular cemetery includes the graves of numerous cosmonauts.

Former headquarters of the KGB.

A sculpture park of the tossed aside relics of the USSR, from Stalin to a massive Soviet emblem.

Immortal combat in a Moscow museum.

Thirteen sculptures in central Moscow graphically depicting vices of the modern world.

Moscow's other, lesser known kremlin is a fairytale-like cultural complex modeled after Old Russia.

The gorgeous entrances into the city's underbelly look more like grand halls than subway stops.

A small part of Russia that does not touch any other part of Russia.

The reason for the strange contortions in the trunks of these "drunken" pine trees in Russia is still a mystery.