The ruins of Vancouver's abandoned heritage railway.

Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.

The fifth-longest natural arch in the world, and the longest outside China.

Here lies Lilly E. Gray, an alleged "victim of the beast," but the reason long remained a mystery.

This museum remembers the tough Mormon trek across America through an intriguing array of artifacts.

This granite monument at the site of an ill-conceived tourist attraction is built from the same stone as the Mormon Temple.

An enormous image of Utah's salt flats made entirely from tape.

Parts of the civil rights movement unfolded in this historic eatery, helmed by the "Queen of Creole Cuisine."

The only home of the famous French impressionist painter open to the public is now a museum and bed and breakfast.

The world-record holder for the longest bridge stretching continuously over water.

A small park on Bourbon Street features life-size bronze statues of New Orleans musicians.

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

A house of courtship where the Jazz Age's most storied lovers got their start.

This historic "City of the Dead" lies prominently in the center of New Orleans' famous Garden District.

The largest wildlife crossing in Utah allows local fauna to safely traverse the six-lane Interstate 80 at Parleys Canyon.

Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.

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

A floating McDonald's built for Expo '86 is now a derelict relic on Burrard Inlet.

A winding stairway to a secluded beach in a residential neighborhood.

One of the largest cat sanctuaries in North America is considered a "Club Med" for felines.

An ideal location for plane spotting in British Columbia.

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