The world's only bushplane museum captures the spirit of the early planes and pilots and their contributions to northern life in Canada.

Possibly the world's largest coin stands just outside of a Canadian science center.

The roadway bend where highway painters practice their craft looks like expressionist art.

This old-world mansion with lush gardens is a gem in the heart of Silicon Valley.

A free, public museum dedicated to the fascinating science of sight.

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

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

The statue of the famous elephant who was the original source of the word "jumbo".

An architectural marvel built by a nearly forgotten Canadian Quaker sect, the Children of Peace.

An arresting temple full of mosaics as colorful as the politician they memorialize.

An abandoned logging settlement nestled in the woods near a popular ski town.

A famous hotel houses an impression collection of mini dioramas and giant doll houses.

The narrowest street in Canada was once a spot for dastardly doings, now a historic piece of Chinatown.

An effigy of Vancouver's Gastown neighorhood's namesake.

This rare example of Vancouver's Victorian past was the home of one of the city's first bookbinders.

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

A unique spiral staircase that doesn't quite make it up to the top floor.