Natural time capsule containing an alien ecosystem.

One of the world's southernmost bars.

The best place to send your postcards home from Antarctica.

One of only two civilian settlements in the desolate lands of chilly Antarctica.

Island of trash twice the size of Texas floats in the Pacific.

This small beach park is littered with a collection of unique driftwood sculptures.

The oldest building in Vancouver's Chinatown is now home to one of Canada’s largest contemporary art collections.

A hat for every occasion can be found in this British Columbia haunt.

The collection of signage remembers the midcentury pushback against the new neon light.

This scenic waterfront swimming pool is the longest salt water pool in North America.

A renegade art installation in a small Vancouver park is now officially sanctioned by the City Parks Department.

This Elizabethan hedge maze is one of only six in North America.

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 colorful hidden village of the fair folk.

One woman's dream became a train hotel in her backyard.

Mind-blowing carvings and fantasy ice scenes grace the largest year-round ice environment in the world.

Massive mounds of golden sand look like a desert landscape randomly plopped in an Arctic forest.

Four-story concrete hotel never opened to customers.

This whimsical stacked cabin looks like something out of a children's book.

This Alaska library may be the only one in the country that allows you to check out pieces of taxidermy.

Colorful boxes placed over the dead are left to rot and crumble.

An Alaska livestock farm devotes itself to harvesting wool from creatures that once ran with mammoths and sabertooth tigers.

While not recognized by Guinness, this chocolate waterfall is likely to be the world's largest.

Running under an entire mountain, the longest highway tunnel in North America is kept fresh using portal fans and jet fans.