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Canada's largest graveyard boasts a lot of noteworthy artifacts as well as its own computerized mapping service.

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

This mesmerizing kinetic sculpture blossoms endlessly in the breeze.

The floating gallery illuminates the heart of Québec City's arts district.

This former prison now houses a lovely library devoted to Quebec's oft-maligned English-speaking history.

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

A 400-square foot model of historic Quebec is the playing field for a state of the art light and sound show.

This steep cable railway has been hoisting passengers in the heart of Québec City for over a century.

A Frankenstein blend of science and art allows one tree to produce 40 different types of stone fruit.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

Gigantic natural towers in a Russian plateau.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

One of the oldest scientific gardens in Britain, containing more than 13,302 plant species in its core collection.

Beautiful hillside Vermont cemetery with amazing funerary art.

The profile of one ill-fated deacon was emblazoned forever on this church window during the Halifax explosion.

This tiny abode has been covered in the art of the little old lady who made her life and living there.

This historic cemetery stopped accepting bodies before many Canadian cities were founded.

This Canadian island is a veritable garden of decay with countless abandoned structures dotting the landscape.

No one knows the origins of the mysterious stone ruins discovered on a hillside in Halifax.

Explore the ruins of war and maritime history along this gorgeously ferocious North Atlantic seascape.

Eastern Canada's ocean playground.

The ship that got left behind.

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

One of only two remaining Victorian-era greenhouses in New York.