The "Crow Boat" of Kootenay Lake, sold for a dollar and now on display as "the world's oldest intact passenger sternwheeler."

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.

Fossils, railroads, and waterfalls!

An old world fairytale-land with over 350 fairy folk figurines hidden amongst 800 year old cedars.

A venerable restaurant chain's one-off attempt to blur the line between themed eatery and amusement park

It was once used as a classroom to teach mining skills to local high school students.

The mayor made the declaration in 2004.

After this former brothel closed, its interior remained almost frozen in time.

The former home of the "Mother of Father's Day."

A monument tucked within a suburban neighborhood commemorates the first nonstop flight across the Pacific Ocean.

Once a year, thousands of naked cyclists flood the streets of a Seattle neighborhood.

Browse through roughly 130,000 titles in the world's largest independent video rental store.

At a rest stop north of Seattle, the trunk of an ancient tree.

Former farm staffed by mental patients is now a public park.

The morning of January 9, 1965, over 46 million cubic meters of earth, rock, and snow broke free, obliterating a section of the highway below.

Railways may have forged this quintet of lovely tunnels, but now they are open to hikers.

This former mining hub holds a surprising abundance of undisturbed relics from the Old West.

This historic hub for labor unions has survived the city's changing landscape.

A mesmerizing amount of crazy art is attached to the side of this house on Seattle's Phinney Ridge, bringing smiles to those who venture down the driveway to take a look.

Peruse rare tomes like poetry bound in pearls or books with branches and berries growing out of their spines.

A heartfelt tribute to all of the victims of one of the greatest tragedies in United States history.

A fur trade museum in western Nebraska stands on the reconstructed footprint of a 19th-century trading post.

From this scenic rockface, you can still see the paths Western pioneers followed.

This park celebrates a sister city relationship that survived the Cold War.