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

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

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

Willy Wonka would love this weird half-a-home.

The Victorian-era greenhouse is stuffed with tropical plants, and open 365 days a year.

Lost subway station nestled beneath Toronto's busy commuter line.

A botanically themed auditorium blooms within the world’s last operating double-decker theater.

A 98-room castle in the middle of Toronto that bankrupted a 19th century electricity multimillionaire.

One of Canada's most incredible rare book collections holds hundreds of thousands of gorgeous tomes that the general public can touch.

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

The remains of the first saint from Alaska in the Russian Orthodox Church.

Open day and night, a church with three pews and Bibles.

Permanent exhibit reminds visitors of the Exxon Valdez.

This Alaska library may be the only one in the country that allows you to check out pieces of taxidermy.

The ruins of a town wiped out by the second-largest earthquake in recorded history.

A suburban street in Anchorage doubles as a runway, and each home has its own airplane hangar.

Buy your friend a drink or staple some cash to the wall for the next guy at the Salty Dawg Saloon.

Running under an entire mountain, the longest highway tunnel in North America is kept fresh using portal fans and jet fans.

This junkyard made over as a theme park is the "Most Alaskan place in Alaska."

During the summer, surfers in Alaska take advantage of this inlet’s unusual water patterns.

This small city where almost everyone lives in the same building can only be reached via North America's longest tunnel.

This WWII-era military installation once held an entire city within its walls - now, its walls are falling down.

A rare chance to get up close and personal with a 13-mile ribbon of ice near downtown Juneau.

This frozen tunnel in central Alaska is both an engineering feat and a valuable climate classroom.