Places libra5310 Wants to Go

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

Concrete pillars provide a beautiful canvas for Quebec City's graffiti artists.

The floating gallery illuminates the heart of Québec City's arts district.

This former prison now houses a lovely library devoted to Quebec's oft-maligned English-speaking history.

This steep cable railway has been hoisting passengers in the heart of Québec City for over a century.

A contemporary fresco movement illustrates the region's rich history.

This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.

Montreal's giant farmer's market is a foodie's best friend, especially in the winter months.

Its columns were all carved from the same white oak tree.

The only example of a Paris Métro sign in use at a subway station outside of the French capital. 

Immortalized in bronze, this frazzled student will be glued to his screen for centuries.

Small ship votives hang from the vaulted ceiling of this port-side church with a Latin inscription on the wall.

City law dictates that this mountaintop cathedral containing the heart of a saint is to remain the tallest building in town.

Every year, the colorful murals of Montreal get a complete makeover.

A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.

This 1967 experiment in modular architecture was designed to be a new model for urban living.

A historic Montreal market that was the city's agricultural hub for over century.

The entrance to this Frankfurt subway station looks like an old tram car crashed into the concrete sidewalk.

Once the site of a Native American harvest festival, this humble clearing later played an invaluable role in the birth of jazz.

Shop for books in the New Orleans house where William Faulkner once lived.

This New Orleans tree is filled with hidden chimes that produce a carefully tuned melody.

A beautiful Victorian statue shows France's enduring love of the rhinoceros.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the 20th century.

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.