A piece of Seattle’s historic Chinatown preserved inside a modern museum.

The city's oldest Chinese restaurant offers local history and seriously good food.

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

The final resting place of one of the most sensational guitar players of all time was created only after his father got the rights to his music.

This famous bridge twisted itself into oblivion, but not for the reason you might think.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

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

Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.

Artifacts from a battleship sunk at Pearl Harbor displayed in the Capitol building of its namesake.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.

A mysterious taxidermy man-beast of the seven seas.

In 1909, the steepest and most difficult piece of track on the Canadian Pacific Railway was replaced with a series of spiralling tunnels cut into the mountains.

Every fall this lake mysteriously drains, like a bathtub with the plug pulled out.

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

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

The third version of this tall sailing ship sits, rusted and burnt, in Lake Ontario.

With well over 130 falls and cascades to brag about, Hamilton, Ontario has earned its stripes as the waterfall capital of the world.

The first outlet of Canada's biggest fast-food franchise has been slinging doughnuts since 1964.

This scenic gorge is named after one of the most famous Bigfoot attacks in pseudohistory.

Stepping inside this coffee shop is a journey through time.

The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.

The first North American landing spot for James Cook on his third voyage of discovery in the Pacific.

A Roman holiday is closer than you think when you use this 1916 staircase inspired by Rome's Piazza di Spagna.