A pixel art killer whale is frozen mid-leap in this Vancouver square.

The colorful, smiling concrete silos of Vancouver.

Allowing humans and fish alike to migrate from freshwater to saltwater and back again.

This Seattle store is packed with all sorts of curious creatures and creations.

A tribute to Ponce de Leon's supposed quest for eternal youth.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

An effigy of Vancouver's Gastown neighorhood's namesake.

This super-sized skillet is a replica of a usable giant pan where a woman once skated on bacon.

Home of Jake the Alligator Man, the mummified remains of a cigar smoking, cross-dressing celebrity of the Northwestern coast.

A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.

"Girl in a Wetsuit" is what happens when a sculptor has to find a way around a 100 year old copyright.

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

What's that on the side of that building? Va Va Voom, it's Bettie!

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

The magic's in the hole!

This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

The site of a concentration camp where inmates were made to take part in one of the largest counterfeiting operations in history is now hauntingly empty.

The footprint of a frustrated devil in Munich's Cathedral.

Golden cobblestones remember a time when this small alley was used to avoid having to give a Nazi salute.

Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.