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

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.

This Elizabethan hedge maze is one of only six in North America.

This scenic waterfront swimming pool is the longest salt water pool in North America.

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

This quirky piece of naval artillery has been deafening Canadians for over a century.

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

The colorful, smiling concrete silos of Vancouver.

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

Surprisingly Delicious Asian-Style Hot Dogs.

An obscure public service from the U.S. government that redeems burnt, moldy, and soiled old greenbacks.

An overlooked memorial honoring the local Washington residents who died in World War I.

Literal "money laundering."

A surprising, but overlooked example of geology in the middle of the nation’s capital.

100 years later, they're still down there.

An easily overlooked memorial to a Ukrainian famine-genocide that killed over 4 million people.

An Industrial Revolution-era public work that purified water using nothing but sand.

The oldest continuously operating fish market in the United States.

People escaping slavery may have hidden inside a corpse vault.

A Civil War fort in the middle of Washington, D.C. has been swallowed by a forest.

A nostalgic bibliographic gem.

A historic estate packed with George Washington's heirlooms, and its own nuclear bunker.

This lonely waterfront memorial to the men of the Titanic was erected by the "Women of America."

A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.