Public works and national defense project meant to carve a canal all the way across the state of Florida.

One of the oldest Mexican restaurants in the United States air-dries its trademark beef in a dangling outdoor cage.

After a short-lived attempt to bring America in line with the rest of the world, this road was left in metric.

This residential door allows San Francisco muggles a glimpse at the wizarding world.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

This large Sitka spruce that appears to be floating in mid-air, has defied logic for years.

Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.

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

A monument stands at one of the starting lines of the Trans-Canada Highway, formerly the longest uninterrupted highway in the world.

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

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

Greenery cloaks this serene sculpture inspired by the famous Lost Gardens of Heligan.

The colorful, smiling concrete silos of Vancouver.

The oldest building in Vancouver's Chinatown is now home to one of Canada’s largest contemporary art collections.

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

At just six feet two inches deep, it is said by Guiness and Ripley to be the world’s narrowest freestanding office building.

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

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

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

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

The world's smallest park was dedicated in 1948 as the only colony for leprechauns west of Ireland.

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.