Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.

Once the gateway to the utopian dream-village of a Civil War embalmer.

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

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

At the base of the Golden Gate Bridge, a small sign basically begs for a high-five.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

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

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

Chevron maintains one “Standard” brand station per state so it doesn’t lose the trademark.

A massive Montreal stadium that has seen nothing but trouble since its inception.

A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

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

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

Surprisingly Delicious Asian-Style Hot Dogs.