This Buddhist temple is home to the graves of the Japanese national legends, the 47 Ronin.

Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

Commemorating the spot where the famous scientist fed his pigeons.

Tucked away amidst some of the most famous addresses in the world is New York’s only fraction of a street.

The most confusing clock in New York.

This exemplar of modernist architecture is meant to captivate and inspire students of the Cooper Union.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

A historic Montreal market that was the city's agricultural hub for over century.

Montreal's colorful subway station shows its support of the local LGBT+ community.

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

Small ship votives hang from the vaulted ceiling of this port-side church with a Latin inscription on the wall.

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

This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.

Vacant Beaux-Arts buildings that serve as reminders of a beach town’s glory days.

An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

A stratovolcano located in the south of Iceland, with a long history of charted activity and a rich mythology attached.

This wrecked airplane has been sitting on a black sand beach since the 1970s.

A bronze statue dating back as far as 1252, still has remnants of gold on its right cheek from ancient gilding.

This tiny New Jersey village has lived many lives but seems determined to remain a ghost town.

The only intersection in America where the buildings on all four corners were built pre-Revolutionary War.