The colorful, smiling concrete silos of Vancouver.

These locks on North America’s oldest canal are named after a porcine rock formation.

This inexpensive lodging house was once a prison notorious for its inhumane practices.

While this is positively the smallest library in Canada, it aspires to be the smallest in the world.

There are lots of hands and feet stamped in the cement in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater, but Mel left behind something extra.

The site of a tragic massacre that spawned a multimedia franchise.

The best B-movies filmed on a shoestring budget were born here.

This Niagara Falls tourist trap is a world bright with neon and curiosities that will inspire love, hate, or a mixture of both.

Canada's subterranean Cold War museum has doubled as a movie set.

Louise Bourgeois' 30-foot-tall steel spider sculpture.

One of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World holds the world's tallest metal staircase.

Giant Redwood-themed cafeteria operates under the golden rule, "Dine Free Unless Delighted."

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.