A mountain pass used by Prohibition-era bootleggers to facilitate traffic into and out of Canada from Vermont.

This 38-drawer structure claims the superlative title, but it isn't the world's only giant filing cabinet.

A pair of black granite tails dive into a sea of grass in landlocked Vermont.

Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.

The biggest museum dedicated to insects in North America, one of the largest in the world.

A massive Montreal stadium that has seen nothing but trouble since its inception.

City law dictates that this mountaintop cathedral containing the heart of a saint is to remain the tallest building in town.

A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.

This 1967 experiment in modular architecture was designed to be a new model for urban living.

Two thirds of this Montreal neon icon has survived to flash another day.

This mesmerizing kinetic sculpture blossoms endlessly in the breeze.

One of Canada's oldest museums, the beautiful Redpath has been serving up Natural History and Ethnography since 1882.

From lefty Jewish gathering site to hip cultural site in just 80 years.

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

Every year, the colorful murals of Montreal get a complete makeover.

The 5.5-mile ring of steel posts around the Capitol Building is one of the largest (and most uniform) of its kind in the world.

A little marble compass above George Washington's (empty) tomb in the Capitol marks where D.C.'s four quadrants intersect.

The "lovely red Vega" of the legendary record-settling pilot.

D.C. once had its own tiny rival to the New York Stock Exchange.

There's a 12-foot-tall replica of the Washington Monument hidden under a manhole nearby.

Look closely and you’ll notice that the color changes a third of the way up the tower.

Interactive museum complete with costumed re-enactors and the only known surviving chest from the Boston Tea Party.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.