A free, public museum dedicated to the fascinating science of sight.

Join the circus for a few lessons to learn clowning, acrobatics, and Chinese contortion.

With the touch of a button, you can read a randomly selected short story.

This shop and studio is dedicated to the art of the book, from letterpress to bookbinding.

Inside an old airplane hangar, friends and strangers alike play on a massive trampoline.

A hidden subterranean installation offers a view of the sky.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

The only theatre in the world constructed specifically for sound movement.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

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

It's 2 billion years old!

This inexpensive lodging house was once a prison notorious for its inhumane practices.

305 homemade stone stairs wind their way up the Hamilton escarpment.

A collection of more than 12,000 shoes, displayed in a building shaped like a shoebox.

This Toronto garden collects stares and tchotchkes in equal measure.

From mining complex to industrial exhibition, this museum once played a major part in the X-Files.

A high point in Vancouver kitsch.

A famous hotel houses an impression collection of mini dioramas and giant doll houses.

Little island known for its massive beachfront "flowerpot" pillars.