Places Serendipity Wants to Go

A sun-filled museum featuring an ever-rotating collection of classic and exotic cars.

This grand old 80-foot sequoia towers above the buildings in the city’s retail center.

A lush Seattle garden designed by the same landscape architects responsible for New York's Central Park.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

Eat your way from Ghana to Myanmar on this globe-trotting menu.

The remains of a once-famous hotel that also acted as an artist colony.

This colorful creation wasn't always a welcome part of Toronto's Moccasin Trail Park.

A miniature representation of Canadian cities and landmarks in incredible—and sometimes hilarious—detail.

The Victorian-era greenhouse is stuffed with tropical plants, and open 365 days a year.

A botanically themed auditorium blooms within the world’s last operating double-decker theater.

One of Canada's most incredible rare book collections holds hundreds of thousands of gorgeous tomes that the general public can touch.

A collection of human remains, animal body parts, and other macabre curiosities all legally for sale.

This Toronto garden collects stares and tchotchkes in equal measure.

A former Canadian Pacific Railway station turned liquor store, the first and only station in Canada visited by British royalty.

A 98-room castle in the middle of Toronto that bankrupted a 19th century electricity multimillionaire.

This knick-knack-covered house (complete with a matching van) is a charming oddity in the middle of a modest downtown neighborhood.

A well-preserved network of cavernous tunnels have spent silent centuries removing Toronto's waste.

An abandoned 1970s theme park that has been turned into a space for waterfront walking.

The oldest landmark of Toronto is a testament to shifting sands.

Fort Garry was a pivotal post for the Hudson’s Bay Company and a major factor in the economy and political culture of the area.

The intense competition of the 19th-century fur trading industry played out at this fort in Western Canada.

The historic home of the pivotal political activist who led the Métis people in rebellion against the Canadian government.

One of Canada's oldest collections of stone fur trading buildings.

A statue in a Canadian zoo remembers the WWI origins of the beloved character Winnie-the-Pooh.