Hell on Earth is actually a small town in Michigan where anyone can be mayor for a day.

This oddly named town refuses to change its phallic moniker.

Known as "Toronto's Flatiron."

A space-age 1950s pavilion on a secluded path is full of Toronto history surprises.

The first transatlantic wireless signal was received at this 17th-century fort.

The first outlet of Canada's biggest fast-food franchise has been slinging doughnuts since 1964.

A rare venue to buy specialty maps.

Detroit’s Eastern Market has been transformed into an outdoor museum with colorful murals that address social issues and symbolize the city.

Berry Gordy Jr.'s old home was the original headquarters of Motown Record Corporation.

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

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

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

This illuminated sign was the first of its kind in Canada and remains a vestige of the Atomic Age.

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

When a medieval fire claimed the original St. Stephen’s Cathedral, it sparked a pattern of unquenchable organ building.

From Ancient Rome to WWII, Neupfarrplatz has over 2,000 years of history underneath its main square.

This riverside restaurant has been serving customers since 1146.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

A random tree outside a Budapest hotel has become a DIY shrine to the late singer.

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

A 1975 bylaw prohibits the construction of any building that would block the view of this Gothic Revival church.

A mysterious lake provides fresh water without any source, somehow restoring itself from atop its mountaintop perch.

A fake block of cheese remembers a feat of dairy engineering from the Chicago World's Fair.

A 1995 memorial acknowledges the tremendous contributions of Vietnamese refugees to Canada.