A warning to the weak-kneed: This narrow bridge does its swinging eight stories high.

The dream home of an iconoclastic renaissance man still stands as a monument to his domestically mundane vision.

This former nursery supplied plants for the creation of Chicago's largest park.

The building was originally a gas station built to resemble a Japanese tea house.

North America's first frozen mummified remains of an ice age steppe bison, the 36,000 year-old mummy named "Blue Babe."

A trading post in the North Pole where children send letters.

A giant poultry statue immortalizes one of Alaska's more humorous town names.

The ghostly remains of what was once the world's richest copper mine.

Roadside collection of 65,000 signs.

This tiny square mile of Canadian sand was once considered the world's smallest desert.

These hellish-looking cliffs in the Canadian Arctic have been burning for centuries.

The stunning remnants of this wreck emerge from an otherworldly backdrop of rainforests.

At least 14 twice-retired ships were sunk to make a lovely rusting breakwater in Comox Harbour.

Sleep snuggled in a sphere suspended atop the forest canopy of Vancouver Island.

This quirky countryside store is known for the goats that hang out and eat the grass on its roof.

Saved by a logger, this Douglas fir is one of the last great old-growth trees in Canada.

Defying all odds, this lonely little tree found a home on a log sticking out of a Canadian lake.

The wreckage still sits at the exact spot the plane crash-landed in 1945, carrying 1,000 pounds of explosives.

Cougar Annie earned her nickname after shooting 60 cougars over the years as well as 80 black bears who threatened her garden.

This towering totem holds the title for the tallest in the world but only according to some.

On the shores of Lake Superior, a small group of monks makes sacred sweets.

The honor of highest point in Michigan was almost given to the wrong peak before this mountain won out by 11 inches.

Largest outdoor staircase in the United States.

A mysterious light in the wood, rumoured to be the the ghost of a railroad brakeman.