Places LukeLW Wants to Go

The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.

This iconic high-rise residential block was one of the last to be built in the Brutalist style.

This historic Canadian jail was once the longest operating prison in the country and is now open for people to incarcerate themselves.

Canada's oldest railway tunnel is illuminated in a rainbow of color as it passes under the streets of this small city.

With its webbed walls and bright red coloring, Calgary's iconic bridge looks like a finger trap puzzle stretched across the river.

Housed inside a replica church, its collection honors the Black community displaced by the Halifax government.

The city of Halifax still bears the scars of the largest explosion prior to the atomic bomb.

The profile of one ill-fated deacon was emblazoned forever on this church window during the Halifax explosion.

This engineering marvel is the longest bridge in Canada and one of the longest spans in the world.

Artistic cabins actually grow deep in the Canadian wilderness.

A lake formed in the basin of a massive impact crater takes the shape of an unbroken ring when viewed from above.

This sculpture was made in 1973 for the city's 300th-anniversary celebrations and was largely considered an eyesore at the time.

The mastermind behind this palatial hotel perished on the Titanic weeks before its grand opening.

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

Little remains of the once flourishing Asbestos' asbestos mine.

The skyline of Montreal includes the silhouette of an unexpected fruit-shaped Canadian staple.

Constructed along the shores of Lake Zurich, this pavilion is a walk-through work of art.

One hundred years ago this small house in downtown Zürich became the birthplace of the Dada movement.

Home of the Large Hadron Collider and the birthplace of the World Wide Web.

The World Wide Web was created in this nondescript corridor at CERN.

This statue of a Hindu cosmic dancer at CERN is a metaphor for modern physics.

CERN's beautiful, bending sculpture is a tribute to the spread of knowledge.

A rare, flower-shaped example of Brutalist architecture in Switzerland.

This colorful but controversial ceiling has been likened to a 21st-century Sistine Chapel.