Prague, Czechia
Prague Meridian
The slender brass strip in Prague's Old Town Square was used to tell time from 1652 to 1918.
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Prague, Czechia
The slender brass strip in Prague's Old Town Square was used to tell time from 1652 to 1918.
Prague, Czechia
The last municipal pneumatic post system in the world was in operation for over 100 years, and may run again.
Prague, Czechia
A turn of the century building boasting some of the most beautiful art nouveau architecture in Prague.
Prague, Czechia
This doorless 20th-century elevator doesn't stop or slow down.
Prague, Czechia
A collection of anatomical samples from one of the first anthropologists to suggest that humans reached North America by crossing the Bering Strait.
Prague, Czechia
The first museum in the world devoted to sexual gadgetry.
Prague, Czechia
Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.
Prague, Czechia
Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.
Lima, Peru
Lima’s Museum of Anthropology is lined with thousands of elongated human craniums.
Monroe, Connecticut
A collection of haunted artifacts chronicles the career of the world’s most famous paranormal investigators. Museum is temporarily closed with plans to re-open.
Burk's Falls, Ontario
A school teacher's massive and terrifying self-built castle.
British Columbia
This vast, pristine wilderness is home to a rare subspecies of black bear.
Whistler, British Columbia
An abandoned logging settlement nestled in the woods near a popular ski town.
Edmonton, Alberta
This massive mall has hundreds of shops, an amusement park, and a history of deadly amusement attractions.
Québec City, Québec
This former prison now houses a lovely library devoted to Quebec's oft-maligned English-speaking history.
Wellington County, Prince Edward Island
Three buildings constructed of over 25,000 multicolored glass bottles.
Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan
Underground tunnels once home to crime are now back open to the public.
Montreal, Québec
A community-run museum invites visitors to explore Jewish communities before and after the Holocaust.
Division No. 9, Subd. A, Newfoundland and Labrador
This rocky spread has been squeezed up directly from the bowels of the earth.
Nunavut
The Arctic Archipelago is home to world's largest third order island: an island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island.
Inuvik, Unorganized, Northwest Territories
These hellish-looking cliffs in the Canadian Arctic have been burning for centuries.
Kelowna, British Columbia
Unlike many reclaimed, abandoned mines, this Canadian cave system is still just a dangerous maze.
Egmont, British Columbia
The water swaps direction twice a day, whipping into a frenzy of whirlpools and rapids.
Halifax, Nova Scotia
The final resting place of 121 victims of the RMS Titanic, 42 of which may never be identified.