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

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

The water swaps direction twice a day, whipping into a frenzy of whirlpools and rapids.

Canada shows its hockey pride with a giant stick.

An operating lighthouse from the 1860s.

This Italianate house was the childhood home of the prominent Canadian painter, Emily Carr.

This historic Victorian hotel has a scandalous history of affairs and murder.

A famous hotel houses an impression collection of mini dioramas and giant doll houses.

The narrowest street in Canada was once a spot for dastardly doings, now a historic piece of Chinatown.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

This famous bridge twisted itself into oblivion, but not for the reason you might think.

The highest point in Washington state is a volcano covered in glaciers.

City Council meetings still happen in this historic building, impeccably preserved on the inside.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

Granting the right of way to ships over surface traffic since 1917.

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.

From mining complex to industrial exhibition, this museum once played a major part in the X-Files.

An American city stranded at the tip of a Canadian peninsula where strict adherence to the "49th parallel rule" became problematic.

"Girl in a Wetsuit" is what happens when a sculptor has to find a way around a 100 year old copyright.

This conservatory allows a little bit of the tropics to thrive in the middle of a major Canadian city.

This Art Deco masterpiece has stood in for some of the most famous buildings in comic book history.

This quirky piece of naval artillery has been deafening Canadians for over a century.

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.