British Columbia
D'arcy Island
This small island has a dark past as a colony for Chinese lepers and a dropoff point for bootleggers.
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British Columbia
This small island has a dark past as a colony for Chinese lepers and a dropoff point for bootleggers.
Marblemount, Washington
This sci-fi gazebo located in a Washington power town is made from old bits of industrial electrical equipment.
Friday Harbor, Washington
This family mausoleum is steeped in symbolism and looks more like a fantasy location than a grave.
Victoria, British Columbia
First flying reptile discovered in British Columbia was for years forgotten in a cabinet.
Victoria, British Columbia
Greenery cloaks this serene sculpture inspired by the famous Lost Gardens of Heligan.
Victoria, British Columbia
This stately Victorian-era burial ground overlooking the Pacific Ocean is home to the graves of some of British Columbia's most famous figures.
Victoria, British Columbia
Home to an octopus slide and a humorous playground-sized cryptid.
Victoria, British Columbia
The remains of Canada's earliest Chinese pioneers are interred along this picturesque point.
Friday Harbor, Washington
Orcas on display and in the water.
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Some call this eerie forest of crooked trees the "Bermuda Triangle of Romania."
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.
Marble Canyon, Arizona
Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.
London, England
A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.
Isle of Staffa, Scotland
This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.
San Francisco, California
A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.
London, England
London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.
Mobridge, South Dakota
The final resting place of the Hunkpapa Lakota leader Tatanka Iyotaka, commonly known by the English translation Sitting Bull.
Uncasville, Connecticut
A free display of artistic lifesize dinosaur sculptures in a backyard garden.
Norwich, Connecticut
Abandoned 37.5' diameter rusted metal sphere sitting in the woods.
Marlinton, West Virginia
Under some of the darkest skies east of the Mississippi, this park invites you to look up into the Milky Way.
Morgan City, Louisiana
The only place in the world where the general public can walk aboard an authentic offshore drilling rig.
California
An improbable creek near Death Valley, not far from the oldest surviving Euro-American structure in the Mojave Desert.
Seattle, Washington
Seattle's super-sized cowboy apparel once belonged to a themed gas station that wrangled in herds of tourists.
Seattle, Washington
This offbeat trailer park is home to vintage peddlers, local artists, indie makers, and more.