Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

This clock is an architectural flourish that stands out as a landmark among a unique Israeli German community.

The maze-like transportation hub contains abandoned areas, derelict stores, and a resident bat colony.

Go inside the house that inspired L. M. Montgomery to create one of literature's most beloved heroines.

This "Palace of Purification" has made many film appearances as a dark and sinister headquarters.

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

Canada's largest graveyard boasts a lot of noteworthy artifacts as well as its own computerized mapping service.

A Montreal deli that was so beloved that it was allowed to circumvent their laws of language.

This Toronto garden collects stares and tchotchkes in equal measure.

These strikingly barren, rolling red hills were caused by bad farming practices.

A memorial to the tens of thousands of Irish who fled to North America during the Great Famine.

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

The third version of this tall sailing ship sits, rusted and burnt, in Lake Ontario.

The "last holdout of the Confederacy” actually sat at the edge of the Canadian border.

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

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World War II bunker still standing on the New Jersey beach.

Frank Lloyd Wright’s most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.

Meet your friends, marry your true love, or tell your enemies to kiss your butt under this historic Pittsburgh timepiece.

The only way to see Pittsburgh is from the top of this lookout point, just like the ancient members of the native peoples did.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.