An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.

Despite being a perfectly pleasant place to be, Loyalton can't seem to attract any visitors.

Secret Manor, a house full of legends, the least of which is the haunting of long-deceased ladies of pleasure.

Sunset-colored dunes of volcanic ash make taking a poor photo impossible.

Sasqu(w)atch out!

Treehouse motel and treehouse-building school.

A tourist attraction founded around a slumping cabin.

A delightfully quirky blend of oddities spread throughout an old 1920s bank.

Shoreline strewn with the remains of ghostly fallen trees.

A tiny red pebble marks what may be the quietest outdoor spot in the United States.

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

A high point in Vancouver kitsch.

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 small town market proudly displays numerous taxidermied animals along its walls.

This grove of ghostly cedars was killed in 1700 by an enormous tsunami, felt from the United States to Japan.

A hiking area billed as a possible home to Bigfoot.

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

Canada shows its hockey pride with a giant stick.

Hundreds of hopeful gold miners came here to get rich, but only two years later the small town was deserted.

The world's largest egg has been cracked a number of times over the years but has been repeatedly replaced.

A crumbling cliffside ruin hidden in the woods.

Rustic natural hot springs in the deciduous rain forest.