Four-story concrete hotel never opened to customers.

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

Natural earth mounds formed in the far north.

This greenhouse was once a hockey arena.

Home to a full cast of the largest woolly mammoth ever recovered in North America. 

When the big city meets the edge of the frontier, log skyscrapers are born.

A skeletal collection of former nautical mainstays.

A famed drink seasoned with an amputated toe, now on its tenth digit.

A tiny wilderness cemetery commemorates the deadliest episode of the Klondike Gold Rush.

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

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

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

From this isolated strip of land in Newfoundland, Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic.

Surprisingly Delicious Asian-Style Hot Dogs.

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

The mastermind behind this palatial hotel perished on the Titanic weeks before its grand opening.

A giant poultry statue immortalizes one of Alaska's more humorous town names.

A World War II gun battery sits at the easternmost point of North America.

An architect's childhood fantasy treehouse made real.

The collection of signage remembers the midcentury pushback against the new neon light.

After spending more than a century on the ocean floor, this shipwrecked column is finally resting atop solid ground.

The "plyscraper" is the world's tallest building made predominantly out of wood.

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

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