Chateau Frontenac - the fortress-like 600-room Chateau Frontenac. Its steep copper pyramid roof is six stories high, with fairy tale castle corner turrets, lovely chimneys, dormer windows and tall conical cornices. This, Quebec’s crowning glory, looks like a veritable chateau that’s been here for centuries. In fact, it’s a relatively recent building that’s been added on to over the decades. The original nine or ten story stone and brick structure opened in 1893. In 1924, a giant red brick central tower inspired by Loire Valley (France) chateaus such as Azay le Rideau, opened to shoot 18 to 20 stories into the sky. In 1943 and again in 1944, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill famously met at the hotel with their staffs to jointly coordinate American and British Commonwealth efforts for World War II. This landmark is considered the world’s most photographed hotel and the focal point of one of the world’s most beautiful skylines.

Plains of Abraham. Here, on this epic battlefield where the fate of North America was largely decided in 1759 when the British fought the French and won