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Despite being stolen multiple times, this civic electrician's street corner Snoopy won't be stopped.

This quaint museum taps into the sweet history of the maple syrup industry.

Among the cliffs of the Elora Gorge is an oft-overlooked piece of celebratory graffiti.

A monument to the 17,000 Chinese who worked and died to build Canada's Pacific Railway.

A well-preserved network of cavernous tunnels have spent silent centuries removing Toronto's waste.

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

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

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

Secret Swing.

What was once one of the country's largest confectionary plants is now an abandoned ruin, but is still pretty sweet.

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

These chunky stone towers out in Lake Michigan are the key to Chicago’s drinking water.

A small abandoned and abused cemetery that has become a magnet for ghost hunters.

Former meatpacking facility turned vertical farm and sustainable business complex.

The original Garfield station is the oldest station facility on the "L", with the station house dating from 1892.

A modern ghost town whose inhabitants were driven away by the growth of nuclear power.

This weeping, 10-foot-tall sculpture was a maquette for a 9/11 memorial.

Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and one of the largest glass murals in the US.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

Huge masonic hall in Philadelphia with lavishly themed rooms.

A gem in the small Missouri town where Winston Churchill coined the term "Iron Curtain" and effectively began the Cold War.

While he no longer has an eatery to give him context, this off-brand Paul Bunyan still holds his giant hot dog with pride.

The bespectacled, cocktail-sipping pachyderm is a strange but fitting liquor store mascot.

Hell on Earth is actually a small town in Michigan where anyone can be mayor for a day.