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Soaring over the Niagara Whirlpool since 1916.

This urban oasis is a marvelous meld of music and landscape architecture.

A field of nothing but boulders which resembles a giant's gravel driveway.

This abandoned Poconos resort is haunted by a history of kitschy romance and a violent fugitive.

A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

The third version of this tall sailing ship sits, rusted and burnt, in Lake Ontario.

Abandoned for over a century, this chilling train tunnel is now a destination for ghost hunters.

Legend says that this short Canadian tunnel still holds the dying screams of a girl who burned alive.

The Incredible Hulk, Yoda, Mulder and Scully, and many many others watch over the mean streets of Toronto.

The longest enclosed pedestrian bridge in the world spans 14 lanes of traffic and six rail tracks, all while lighting up the night sky.

This former big box store has been reimagined as a massive public art space.

This colorful creation wasn't always a welcome part of Toronto's Moccasin Trail Park.

This "Palace of Purification" has made many film appearances as a dark and sinister headquarters.

Smallest house in Toronto sits on a lot meant to be just wide enough for cars to drive through.

A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.

This Toronto garden collects stares and tchotchkes in equal measure.

An abandoned 1970s theme park that has been turned into a space for waterfront walking.

A former Canadian Pacific Railway station turned liquor store, the first and only station in Canada visited by British royalty.

This knick-knack-covered house (complete with a matching van) is a charming oddity in the middle of a modest downtown neighborhood.

A memorial to the tens of thousands of Irish who fled to North America during the Great Famine.

This unusual structure may be on its way to becoming a cultural landmark in Toronto.

One of the foremost Sherlock Holmes collections is hidden away at a Toronto library.

This massive, ancient stone was disassembled and then put back together again.

Canada's largest dinosaur skeleton was hidden away in storage for more than 40 years.