Louise Bourgeois' 30-foot-tall steel spider sculpture.

Now a public art piece, this curious metal feature originally advertised a tinsmith's services.

The mastermind behind this palatial hotel perished on the Titanic weeks before its grand opening.

This inexpensive lodging house was once a prison notorious for its inhumane practices.

A rare venue to buy specialty maps.

A sprawling Victorian farm that has been surrounded by a capital city is one of Canada's greatest treasures.

These locks on North America’s oldest canal are named after a porcine rock formation.

Canada’s infamous maximum-security prison, now open for guided tours with former guards.

This giant roadside fruit is home to an array of apple-based treats.

The longest enclosed pedestrian bridge in the world spans 14 lanes of traffic and six rail tracks, all while lighting up the night sky.

This strangely specific landmark will let travelers know when they are half way there.

The fifth-longest suspension bridge the world, connecting one Michigan peninsula to another.

One of the largest crucifixes in the world stands 55 feet tall in a secluded, wooded area of northern Michigan.

Over 60 chemical plants and oil refineries sit in a 15-mile-wide section outside town.

A petroleum heritage museum on the site where James Miller Williams dug the first commercial oil well on the continent in 1858.

This natural sea cave hides a small wonderland of natural turquoise beauty.

Little island known for its massive beachfront "flowerpot" pillars.

The capital of the Cayman Islands is a center of offshore banking, but gets battered by blistering hurricanes.

This isthmus in the Bahamas narrowly separates the roiling Atlantic from the cool Bight of Eleuthera.

An imposing statue of the first prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda stands in the middle of a traffic intersection.

These waste baskets play a few risque messages to discourage littering.

This chimerical bridge/tunnel appears to dead end right into the sea.

Rising from the sea like a stone monster.

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