📍 Only the Best 10 in Montreal, QC

Habitat 67. Montreal's own top architecture pick is also one of the world's best, full stop — this is the same Habitat 67 that ranks on Tengoo's global architecture top 10, not a hometown-favorite consolation entry. Architect Moshe Safdie built it as his master's thesis, then actually got to build it for real for Expo 67, stacking 354 identical concrete cubes into a form that still reads as futuristic decades later. Free to view from the Old Port or across the water; it's still occupied as private apartments, so there's no interior access.

Poutine at La Banquise. Montreal's own top poutine pick is also one of the world's best, full stop — this is the same La Banquise that ranks on Tengoo's global national-dishes top 10, not a hometown-favorite consolation entry. Open 24 hours, which matters, because poutine at 2am hits differently than poutine at 2pm. Cheese curds that squeak against your teeth, gravy that doesn't fully melt them, fries underneath somehow still crisp — around ten Canadian dollars for the classic version, more for one of the 30-odd variations on the menu.