Tofino, British Columbia
Canso Bomber Crash Site
The wreckage still sits at the exact spot the plane crash-landed in 1945, carrying 1,000 pounds of explosives.
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Tofino, British Columbia
The wreckage still sits at the exact spot the plane crash-landed in 1945, carrying 1,000 pounds of explosives.
Pachena Beach, British Columbia
The remains of the worst maritime disaster in the history of the "Graveyard of the Pacific."
Warrenton, Oregon
100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.
Elsie, Oregon
A logging-themed roadside restaurant surrounded by museum-quality machinery and artifacts from the industry's heyday.
North Vancouver, British Columbia
This expansive bridge in the Canadian wilderness was originally just built for friends.
Truckee, California
The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.
York, England
The National Railway Museum in York is the largest railway museum in the world, attracting almost 1 million visitors per year.
Lier, Belgium
A 14th-century fortified keep showcases the masterpieces of an ingenious 20th-century clockmaker.
Nubia, Egypt
Ozymandias’ time-keeping temple.
Elma, Washington
From overly ambitious (and eventually abandoned) atomic dream to bustling office park.
Leavenworth, Washington
Train debris from the deadliest avalanche in United States history can still be found in the ravine where so many perished.
Leavenworth, Washington
The site of the Wellington avalanche, one of the America's worst railroad disasters.
Forks, Washington
A tiny red pebble marks what may be the quietest outdoor spot in the United States.
Whistler, British Columbia
This egg-shaped treehouse was inspired by "sport sleeping."
Milton, Delaware
What began as an art installation is now the private drinkhaüs for a brewery's employees.
La Push, Washington
A tiny plaque hidden miles into the Washington wilderness is all that remains to honor a shipwreck that left 18 people dead.
Issaquah, Washington
A whimsical village of unique treehouses resides in a Washington forest.
Charleston, South Carolina
Paths are maintained, but trees have taken over plots.
Rawlins, Wyoming
This prison-turned-museum is a remnant of the Old West's grizzly, violent past.
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario
Legend says that this short Canadian tunnel still holds the dying screams of a girl who burned alive.
Colorado Springs, Colorado
The haunted reputation of these abandoned Colorado train tunnels is probably not helped by the terrifying spiked fence.
Nabi Samwil, Israel
This ancient tomb in the West Bank is a holy site for Jews, Muslims, and Christians alike.
Newport, Rhode Island
The second oldest Jewish graveyard in the U.S. is tiny, with connections to George Washington and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Ochopee, Florida
In the depths of the Everglades, one man has dedicated his life to studying the elusive Skunk Ape.