In this century-old literary safehouse, print is alive and well.

A library built during San Francisco's pioneer times is a student's retreat, bibliophile's sanctuary, and chess player's delight.

A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

Home of the world's smallest dinosaur footprints.

A pixel art killer whale is frozen mid-leap in this Vancouver square.

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

Traditional 15th century Chinese garden in the middle of Vancouver.

This expansive bridge in the Canadian wilderness was originally just built for friends.

America's largest viking stands in a Minnesota city that believes it was visited by the ancient nords.

14th century Norse artifacts in Northwestern Minnesota could have proved a Viking landing before Columbus.

Fossils, railroads, and waterfalls!

Hoodoos, naturally eroded land formations, stand 20 feet tall in the Canadian badlands.

As if T-rex wasn't big enough, this Canadian monument is four times larger than the real thing.

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

A herd of 150 bison live on California's Santa Catalina Island and are at the heart of an ongoing debate between environmental protection and economic expansion.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

NASA's leading space science lab started by a co-founder with deep ties to the occult.

A British pub embodies the spirit of a California legend.

One of the world's longest murals depicts the history of diversity in Los Angeles.

A Masterpiece with a Tragic History.

A modern day curiosity cabinet.