One of few lasting examples of the brief octagon craze that developed into folly.

This residential door allows San Francisco muggles a glimpse at the wizarding world.

America's oldest Italian restaurant is a San Francisco institution.

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

This teeny-tiny park built by a San Francisco man in 1962 is mostly stairs.

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

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

Special tunnels built so that frogs won't be killed when crossing the highway.

A dentist's hated concrete colossi are now beloved icons of the community.

A contemporary fresco movement illustrates the region's rich history.

This steep cable railway has been hoisting passengers in the heart of Québec City for over a century.

This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.

Decor at “Nevada’s Oldest Thirst Parlor” includes Raquel Welch's brassiere hanging from a stuffed moose head.

A charming desert roadside bakery that produces 10 times more bread daily than it has residents in its town.

A smoke stack so large, the Washington Monument could fit inside!

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

Leave a button on the jacket of this iconic Seattle clown.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

The flow from this waterfall sometimes comes out of springs below its rim.

Curiously, this large sporting goods store features 14 wax representations of American presidents.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.