A centuries-old lookout post still sits atop a natural stone spire.

A mysterious taxidermy man-beast of the seven seas.

Tacoma’s 25-foot coffee pot music spot has served up over 80 years of concrete kitsch.

This whimsical fountain pays tribute to Toronto's four-legged friends.

A botanically themed auditorium blooms within the world’s last operating double-decker theater.

After four years of grasshopper plagues, this chapel was erected as a plea to God to make them end.

17,400 lbs., 12 feet in diameter, and 29 years in the making.

Hidden away in the city of Madison, Wisconsin is a nearly forgotten home that Frank Lloyd Wright built for a childhood friend.

A hundred-year-old museum filled with giant physics toys and experiments designed by grad students.

Before he was America’s most famous preservationist, John Muir was an ingenious mechanical inventor.

A small and quirky museum hidden inside a fence.

The only town in the world with two exclamation points in its name.

This tiny abode has been covered in the art of the little old lady who made her life and living there.

A statue in a Canadian zoo remembers the WWI origins of the beloved character Winnie-the-Pooh.

While this is positively the smallest library in Canada, it aspires to be the smallest in the world.

This monster fiberglass crustacean stands watch over the self-proclaimed "lobster capital of the world."

These powerful, if squat, Canadian waterfalls flow in different directions depending on the time of day.

The largest single concentration of harmless garter snakes in the world is a writhing Canadian serpent orgy.

A tiny, picturesque island, where cows and wild horses wander around the houses.

This sprawling collection hides many charms.

This Canadian exhibit with claims as the largest one man taxidermy collection in North America.

It took over 100 years to decode this enigmatic epitaph for two buried brides.

It's 2 billion years old!

A historic Montreal market that was the city's agricultural hub for over century.