Banff, Alberta
Banff Springs Hotel
Few other hotels can rival the grandeur of the Castle in the Rockies.
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Banff, Alberta
Few other hotels can rival the grandeur of the Castle in the Rockies.
Banff, Alberta
Dive into the history and true tall-tales of Banff National Park.
Banff, Alberta
A mysterious taxidermy man-beast of the seven seas.
Banff, Alberta
The oldest natural history museum in western Canada houses more than 5,000 vintage botanical and zoological specimens.
Banff, Alberta
The natural hot spring that was integral to the creation of Canada's first national park.
Improvement District No. 9, Alberta
Though many were skeptical at first, these animal-specific routes across the Trans-Canada Highway have been a major conservation success.
Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan
The world's largest moose statue is located (where else?) in Canada.
Detroit, Michigan
This railway-turned-greenway provides a pedestrian link in downtown Detroit and celebrates urban artwork.
Detroit, Michigan
Controversial tribute to the heavyweight champion boxer who grew up in Detroit.
Ottawa, Ontario
Louise Bourgeois' 30-foot-tall steel spider sculpture.
Montreal, Québec
This public art pays homage to the baseball legend and civil rights icon and his time in Montreal.
Montreal, Québec
A Montreal deli that was so beloved that it was allowed to circumvent their laws of language.
Montreal, Québec
A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.
Montreal, Québec
The biggest museum dedicated to insects in North America, one of the largest in the world.
Québec City, Québec
This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.
Québec City, Québec
This steep cable railway has been hoisting passengers in the heart of Québec City for over a century.
Baddeck, Nova Scotia
This Canadian monument to the man who invented the telephone allows visitors to get up close and personal with the artifacts of his life.
Cologne, Germany
The bones of the Biblical Magi traveled to Constantinople and Milan before landing in their current home inside an elaborate golden reliquary in the Cologne Cathedral.
Cologne, Germany
A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.
Wierschem, Germany
This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.
Trier, Germany
The last bastion of Roman presence north of the Alps looms over a German town.
Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
This Canadian road's nickname stuck so hard the city had to keep it.
Waskesiu Lake, Saskatchewan
Where the English trapper who faked a First Nations identity bunked with beavers.
Lloydminster, Alberta
This Canadian city is actually two-in-one, even if they only respect the timezone of one side.