This gorgeous beach hides behind two headlands in Oregon's Ecola State Park.

This super-sized skillet is a replica of a usable giant pan where a woman once skated on bacon.

From overly ambitious (and eventually abandoned) atomic dream to bustling office park.

Shoreline strewn with the remains of ghostly fallen trees.

A tiny plaque hidden miles into the Washington wilderness is all that remains to honor a shipwreck that left 18 people dead.

A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.

A glimpse into the "Logging Capital of the World" at a time when there was far more forest and far less machinery.

City Council meetings still happen in this historic building, impeccably preserved on the inside.

An abandoned network of military bunkers and tunnels open for anyone willing to descend into the darkness.

A collection of Inukshuks built and left by several hikers.

Canada shows its hockey pride with a giant stick.

The narrowest street in Canada was once a spot for dastardly doings, now a historic piece of Chinatown.

This historic Victorian hotel has a scandalous history of affairs and murder.

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

A monument stands at one of the starting lines of the Trans-Canada Highway, formerly the longest uninterrupted highway in the world.

An operating lighthouse from the 1860s.

This small beach park is littered with a collection of unique driftwood sculptures.

A crumbling cliffside ruin hidden in the woods.

Defying all odds, this lonely little tree found a home on a log sticking out of a Canadian lake.

At least 14 twice-retired ships were sunk to make a lovely rusting breakwater in Comox Harbour.

The whimsical legacy of a Canadian artist.

This quirky countryside store is known for the goats that hang out and eat the grass on its roof.

This hauntingly stark structure is a relic of an industrial past.