Kawaii meets poisonous at this unique art gallery.

The legendary birthplace of the Japanese maneki-neko is dotted with hundreds of lucky beckoning cats.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

A contemporary fresco movement illustrates the region's rich history.

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

This country market harbors goats on its roof.

A floating McDonald's built for Expo '86 is now a derelict relic on Burrard Inlet.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

Where else would a linchpin of post-colonial Native American cuisine anchor the menu but a museum?

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.

This little Vancouver shack is a temple to all things Hendrix.

An effigy of Vancouver's Gastown neighorhood's namesake.

Funded by John D. Rockefeller, this is one of the earliest, and most beautiful, shopping arcades in America.

Medical history museum featuring a lovely doctor's office from the 1800s.

The angel of death appears to weep black tears at this grave marker.

Mussolini gave Cincinnati a bronze statue of Romulus and Remus suckling at a wolf's teats.

The southernmost outpost of the Russian Empire in colonial America.

One of the oldest reform schools in the United States, home to wayward boys such as Merle Haggard, now abandoned.

This ultra-modern California span is actually a titanic solar clock in disguise built by famed architect Santiago Calatrava.

This concert pavilion on the shore of the Great Salt Lake has been destroyed by fire, water, and disinterest but keeps coming back.

Here, at the "world's longest art gallery," you'll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

Incredible sculptures inspired by obscure passages from the Bible.

The home of a formerly enslaved man who went on to become a prospector, entrepreneur, and activist for Black rights.

Paleoamericans built these ancient walls high in the Colorado Rockies as part of an extensive hunting system.