A ruined castle stands atop a hill surrounded by dragon lore.

This former Nazi castle was built as a school to train what would have been the future of the Third Reich.

Part mural and part sculpture, this work of art sits in the middle of the Promenade, as if swimming in a river of asphalt towards the ocean.

Once the largest windmill outside of Holland, with enormous 114 foot sails.

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

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

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

Beneath the southern end of the Golden Gate Bridge is the “Gibraltar of the West Coast,” a fort built to protect the San Francisco Bay from naval attack.

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

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

Made of granite, this is a symbol of the Inuit peoples near water that expresses abundance.

This quirky piece of naval artillery has been deafening Canadians for over a century.

What happens when a sculptor has to find a way around a 100-year-old copyright.

A mysterious sculpture is hidden in Vancouver's Stanley Park.

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.

This exaggerated sculpture resembles a well known feature of Vancouver:

A roadside attraction fit for a giant.

Fossils, railroads, and waterfalls!

This 20-foot-tall sculpture is in honor of the herd of bighorn sheep that call Radium Hot Springs home.

Since its original beginnings as a weather observatory mountaintop, this facility played an instrumental role in gathering atmospheric data for almost 100 years.

Few other hotels can rival the grandeur of the Castle in the Rockies.

Canada’s surprisingly controversial monument to Dwight Eisenhower.

The ruins of the "20-year town" lay out among the mountains of Alberta.