While these wooden totems bear a striking resemblance to First Nations artwork of British Columbia, their actual origins lay on the opposite side of the Pacific Ocean.

A high point in Vancouver kitsch.

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

This Art Deco masterpiece has stood in for some of the most famous buildings in comic book history.

Traditional 15th century Chinese garden in the middle of Vancouver.

Historic psychiatric asylum and most-filmed location in the Great White North.

A quiet nook at the top of a little-known hilltop park named after California's first poet laureate.

An art supply shop holds the secrets of this quiet neighborhood's raucous Barbary Coast past.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.

At just six feet two inches deep, it is said by Guiness and Ripley to be the world’s narrowest freestanding office building.

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