The colorful, smiling concrete silos of Vancouver.

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

This exaggerated sculpture resembles a well known feature of Vancouver:

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

An American city stranded at the tip of a Canadian peninsula where strict adherence to the "49th parallel rule" became problematic.

While these wooden totems bear a striking resemblance to First Nations artwork of British Columbia, their actual origins lay on the opposite side of the Pacific Ocean.

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

Stockholm's decidedly unique public transit system has doubled as the world's longest art gallery for decades.

This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.

The former home of France's controversial pop maestro is almost completely covered in ever-changing tributes and graffiti.

Marie Antoinette and Napoleon Bonaparte were fans of this 200-year-old French chocolatier.

Taking the subway here means doing so over a bridge located in the middle of an estuary.

A small etching on the white marble parapet was written in runic script by a Viking mercenary.

A marvel of Byzantine engineering under the streets of Istanbul.

Ancient serpentine sacrifice holder that has stood the test of time.

This remarkably well-preserved Egyptian plinth is pretty well traveled for a giant piece of stone.

A gorgeous, Gaudí-esque stairway constructed in the city of Istanbul by a prominent Jewish family.

A fountain standing as a testament to a doomed alliance.

An Art Nouveau gem hides beneath the layers of city grime obscuring this once-magnificent building.

Oversized statues are just the tip of this nostalgic Americana roadside attraction.

In the mountains of West Virginia is this perfectly preserved Art Deco train station.

In West Virginia, you can walk across the longest single-arch bridge in the Western Hemisphere.

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.