Railways may have forged this quintet of lovely tunnels, but now they are open to hikers.

Bird dung painted this huge boulder which in turn inspired the name of a city.

As you overlook the Howe Sound and the town of Squamish, your breath will be taken away by its beauty or the stairs... probably all the stairs.

The remains of a Canadian train crash are now mouldering beneath layers of rust and graffiti.

You don't have to visit the deep blue sea to see these majestic creatures swimming wild and free.

This natural wonder is disappearing at an alarming rate.

A surviving remnant of the thick ice mass that once mantled most of Western Canada's mountains.

Roadside collection of 65,000 signs.

The ruins of a town wiped out by the second-largest earthquake in recorded history.

A trading post in the North Pole where children send letters.

The stickered marker pinpoints where the only maintained road in the United States crosses into the polar region.

Bridge that died in war and was resurected.

This abandoned Olympic skiing facility still bears the scars of the Siege of Sarajevo.

A number of craters left by fatal mortar strikes have been filled with red resin to remember those lost during the Siege of Sarajevo.

The place where World War I began.

Celebrated example of Ottoman architecture that also served as a site for brutal massacres.

An idyllic traditional timber village on a picturesque hill was built for a film.

These historic defenses ensured the city within would survive hundreds of years of occupations, sieges, and invasions.

A tiny church on a man-made island in the Adriatic.

This exclusive resort has completely covered a tiny Balkan island in a 5-star warren of guest rooms.

This mystical orb covered in strange symbols is thought to have been used in ancient Greek magical rituals.

What once sat in the world’s spotlight is today a largely disused ghost complex.

Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.

This ancient structure appears Roman, but was constructed during the 16th century and was utilized until 1911.