The highest point in the state of New Hampshire, and while unlikely "the worst weather in the world," it sure seems that way to hikers.

One of the oldest carousels in the United States is still running in the coastal village of Watch Hill.

The colorful, smiling concrete silos of Vancouver.

A hat for every occasion can be found in this British Columbia haunt.

This expansive bridge in the Canadian wilderness was originally just built for friends.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

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

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

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

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

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

Leave a button on the jacket of this iconic Seattle clown.

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

These memorials built by an eccentric bachelor on the side of Interstate 5 cause both wonder and traffic accidents.

This semi-secret garden in south Seattle emulates a traditional Japanese garden using the plants of the Pacific Northwest.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin was neighbors with Mark Twain while living in this Connecticut home.

Commemorating the spot where the famous scientist fed his pigeons.

Quirky castle designed by the American actor best known for portraying Sherlock Holmes on stage.

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

This exhibit allows visitors to wander through the interior of a replica Ice Age glacial cave.