Though strikingly beautiful, Seattle's other railway station is now largely forgotten.

A memorial for the mustachioed record-setting runner.

This nature center has one of the largest collections of native raptors in the Pacific Northwest.

The world's last remaining store of its kind.

Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels scores of people have died on its slopes.

An institution that preserves the history of institutionalization.

The lush coastal city of Astoria is riddled with forgotten secret sidewalks.

This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

The magic's in the hole!

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

This former big box store has been reimagined as a massive public art space.

Possibly the world's largest coin stands just outside of a Canadian science center.

A former Canadian Pacific Railway station turned liquor store, the first and only station in Canada visited by British royalty.

The Incredible Hulk, Yoda, Mulder and Scully, and many many others watch over the mean streets of Toronto.

This unusual structure may be on its way to becoming a cultural landmark in Toronto.

This Toronto garden collects stares and tchotchkes in equal measure.

Lost subway station nestled beneath Toronto's busy commuter line.

The Wright Tavern is possibly the most important building in Concord Massachusetts to the American Revolution.

This delicate museum is devoted to the art and industry that once supported Cape Cod's oldest town.

This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

The filming location of a shark attack in Steven Spielberg's famous shark movie.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."