While these wooden totems bear a striking resemblance to First Nations artwork of British Columbia, their actual origins lay on the opposite side of the Pacific Ocean.

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

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

The ruins of Vancouver's abandoned heritage railway.

A renegade art installation in a small Vancouver park is now officially sanctioned by the City Parks Department.

A high point in Vancouver kitsch.

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

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

The second-largest giant sequoia in the world.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

This crumbling Death Valley mining complex was known for its use of giant, 20-mule team wagons.

Back in 1952, you could get a mushroom cloud chaser with your atomic cocktail.

Take shelter from Hawai'i's tropical heat under the massive canopy of largest Banyan tree on the island.

A series of waterfalls and pools that flow through the 'Ohe'o Gulch and into the ocean.

In 2018, Pohoiki Road was severed by lava flowing from the eruption of Kilauea.

This church was transported brick by brick from the ruins of a 16th-century city into Panama City's current historic district.

The neon signs from Las Vegas' past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

Museum celebrating the ocean, with the largest wunderkammer dedicated to sea exploration.

The largest bell in the world has been swinging high above a Cologne cathedral for almost a century.

A building so large that it has its own weather.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.