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

The world's largest dark sky preserve is a Canadian park established to preserve the country's last wood bison.

One of two side-by-side totem pole parks dedicated to educating visitors on Tlingit history and culture.

This historic collection of Native Alaskan artifacts was resurrected through a partnership between the WPA and tribal artisans.

Roadside collection of 65,000 signs.

Upside-down trees serve as natural flower pots in this hanging garden of Alaska.

A rare chance to get up close and personal with a 13-mile ribbon of ice near downtown Juneau.

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

This decommissioned DC-3 now forever points into the oncoming wind.

The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.

A trading post in the North Pole where children send letters.

This shrine to the patron saint of Alaska sits on a small tidal island and was built from the land’s own beach stones.

This tiny square mile of Canadian sand was once considered the world's smallest desert.

A classic gold rush hotel can be expected to pick up some ghosts along the way, and the Golden North is no exception.

"You don't need a rocket scientist to build a steam engine, but we've got one." -Museum docent on the credentials of a restoration volunteer.

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

A morbid gateway to an Alaska town prides itself on the hunting history it represents.

The "Gateway to the Arctic" connects Barrow's indigenous population with the sea and its traditional industry: whaling.

A land of debatable treasure.

The first U.S. town to secede from the Union, only to vote themselves right back in.

Home of what was the largest hydraulic mine in the world, producing gold and the first diamonds in the U.S.

The long, arduous journey of the stones of the Abbey of New Clairvaux.

An old-timey medicine shop that once served Chinese laborers during the Gold Rush is still open for business to this day.