The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

A Montreal deli that was so beloved that it was allowed to circumvent their laws of language.

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.

A collection of more than 12,000 shoes, displayed in a building shaped like a shoebox.

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

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

This Art Deco masterpiece has stood in for some of the most famous buildings in comic book history.

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

An effigy of Vancouver's Gastown neighorhood's namesake.

Traditional 15th century Chinese garden in the middle of Vancouver.

At just six feet two inches deep, it is said by Guiness and Ripley to be the world’s narrowest freestanding office building.

Housing a morgue, rare and confiscated weapons, and autopsy remains, the Vancouver police museum displays the dark side of Canada.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

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

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

This verdant, tree-lined Reykjavik graveyard is both enchanting and eerie.