Vancouver Road Trip

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

Surprisingly Delicious Asian-Style Hot Dogs.

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

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

A high point in Vancouver kitsch.

This conservatory allows a little bit of the tropics to thrive in the middle of a major Canadian city.

This little museum has an exhibit devoted to the elusive forest denizens.

Sunset-colored dunes of volcanic ash make taking a poor photo impossible.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.

Not-so-fearsome tiny trolls live under this wooden train trestle in Portland.

This stoic, if derpy, giant stands as a monument to Oregon's statehood and the novelty culture of yesteryear.

Tiny horses tethered to antique rings are scattered around the city.

The wooden airship was the largest flying boat ever built.

The second largest waterfall by volume in the U.S., Willamette Falls is outdone only by Niagara in the amount of water that is pushed northward.

Legend says that these tall basalt pillars are the petrified wives of a trickster god.

The strange phenomenon causing gravity to "work backwards" on this hill has been blamed on the paranormal.

A giant milk bottle from the 1930s beckons drivers to this diner.

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

An underground library specializing in underground knowledge.

A huge musical sculpture and other art installations on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grounds.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

Peruse rare tomes like poetry bound in pearls or books with branches and berries growing out of their spines.

A "Minnesota-style" pizza parlor in the Scandinavian heart of Seattle.

A colorful hidden village of the fair folk.

This Art Deco masterpiece has stood in for some of the most famous buildings in comic book history.

This rare example of Vancouver's Victorian past was the home of one of the city's first bookbinders.

This exaggerated sculpture resembles a well known feature of Vancouver: