This Puget Sound military post has a long, turbulent history as a gateway to the Pacific.

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

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

From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

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

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

Old submarine parts have been converted into faux whale fins.

This natural wonder is disappearing at an alarming rate.

A surviving remnant of the thick ice mass that once mantled most of Western Canada's mountains.

The "Crow Boat" of Kootenay Lake, sold for a dollar and now on display as "the world's oldest intact passenger sternwheeler."

Fossils, railroads, and waterfalls!

Canada’s surprisingly controversial monument to Dwight Eisenhower.

A small and quirky museum hidden inside a fence.

The granite head appears to be deep in thought and half buried in the ground.

This blowhole is supposedly caused by a trapped monster.

The ruins of the "20-year town" lay out among the mountains of Alberta.

A mysterious taxidermy man-beast of the seven seas.

Few other hotels can rival the grandeur of the Castle in the Rockies.

Breathtakingly blue walls shimmer inside the "Glacier Behind the Town."

A historic freight system that found the true gold rush is in tourism.

The facade of this relic from the Klondike gold rush is decorated with over 8,800 pieces of driftwood.