A Seattle oddities shop brimming with Victorian-era gems and antique curio.

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

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

This Seattle museum displays the history of the telephone through an impressive collection of telecom equipment.

A Boeing mechanic and his wife leave a whimsical, stone sculptured garden as their legacy.

The remains of a former logging boom town, crumbled away in the forest.

Tasked with beautifying a disused stretch of industrial land one artist filled a hole with grass.

Native American burial mounds? Giant gopher dens? No one knows what created the Mima Mounds.

A bike being "eaten" by a tree is the real Vashon legend behind popular children's book, "Red Ranger Came Calling."

This parking garage has given itself over to graffiti artists and the neighborhood can't thank them enough.

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.

Housing a morgue, rare and confiscated weapons, and autopsy remains, the Vancouver police museum displays the dark side of Canada.

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

Antiques shop filled with all manner of curious collectibles.

A pixel art killer whale is frozen mid-leap in this Vancouver square.

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

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.

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

Buried in the Laos jungle is a sanctuary for bears that would have otherwise been milked to death by poachers.

This tiered waterfall is so pretty it may cause visitors to cry tears of their own.

An enormous dragon scales the walls of this 17-story temple.

The headquarters of the Mahanikai school of Buddhism, Thailand's largest monastic order.

Time-frozen department store of dangerous and dusty relics.