The giant birds honor two native North American species.

One of the largest underground systems runs under Canada's largest urban center.

A memorial to the tens of thousands of Irish who fled to North America during the Great Famine.

This urban oasis is a marvelous meld of music and landscape architecture.

One of the foremost Sherlock Holmes collections is hidden away at a Toronto library.

Smallest house in Toronto sits on a lot meant to be just wide enough for cars to drive through.

A unique subway station where pillars evoke ancient civilizations.

A collection of more than 12,000 shoes, displayed in a building shaped like a shoebox.

A fantastic place to see murals, and an important location in the history of Toronto's legal street art scene.

This whimsical fountain pays tribute to Toronto's four-legged friends.

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

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

Willy Wonka would love this weird half-a-home.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

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

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

A spectacular remnant of an Adler and Sullivan masterpiece that was destroyed in 1972.

Once at the center of U.S. finance, the historic Trading Room was meticulously recreated piece by piece and rebuilt in the Art Institute.

A military museum and library dedicated to the citizen soldier.

Where dioramas can follow you home.

Once called the "Polish Gold Coast" it is an icon of the neighborhood that bears its same name.