A pixel art killer whale is frozen mid-leap in this Vancouver square.

Few other hotels can rival the grandeur of the Castle in the Rockies.

This conservatory allows a little bit of the tropics to thrive in the middle of a major Canadian city.

A sacred lake composed of over 300 separate pools of highly concentrated minerals.

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

Fossils, railroads, and waterfalls!

A high point in Vancouver kitsch.

The remains of a Canadian train crash are now mouldering beneath layers of rust and graffiti.

This Art Deco masterpiece has stood in for some of the most famous buildings in comic book history.

Historic psychiatric asylum and most-filmed location in the Great White North.

Traditional 15th century Chinese garden in the middle of Vancouver.

This expansive bridge in the Canadian wilderness was originally just built for friends.

This Elizabethan hedge maze is one of only six in North America.

Metro station with a claim to rock n' roll fame.

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.

Super-heavy Nazi architectural experiment.

Berlin's old airport.

The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

A narrow passage next to a cafe leads to a courtyard exploding with murals, tags, and paste-ups.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

An eerie diorama that captures the majestic nature of a few prehistoric-looking beasts.

This taxidermy scene brings the struggle for survival in the Indian jungle to a quiet corner of a Manhattan museum.

This poignant display is now a memorial to these regionally extinct species.