Tacoma, Washington
Bob's Java Jive
Tacoma’s 25-foot coffee pot music spot has served up over 80 years of concrete kitsch.
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Tacoma, Washington
Tacoma’s 25-foot coffee pot music spot has served up over 80 years of concrete kitsch.
Crescent City, California
This 19th-century museum inside of a lighthouse is only accessible during low tide.
Eureka, California
Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.
Myers Flat, California
A vaudeville performer mounted this hollowed-out redwood log onto the chassis of a truck, and toured the country spreading a message of conservation.
West Glacier, Montana
The only road through the heart of Glacier National Park.
Great Falls, Montana
A permanent open-air exhibition of stunning, and inherently American, public art.
Morrissey, British Columbia
In British Columbia, a unique microclimate has allowed these trees to live much longer than they usually would.
Sparwood, British Columbia
Nestled near the mountains of western Canada resides this behemoth earth mover.
Bellevue, Alberta
A sleepy little town that had the greatest landslide in North American history fall on it.
Bellevue, Alberta
Despite being dead since the 1970s, this Canadian tree is kept upright and intact by adoring locals.
Waterton Park, Alberta
A majestic hotel that also stands as a historic relic.
Kananaskis, Alberta
A stone troll guards the hike that leads to this waterfall.
Whistler, British Columbia
An abandoned logging settlement nestled in the woods near a popular ski town.
Whistler, British Columbia
The remains of a Canadian train crash are now mouldering beneath layers of rust and graffiti.
Vancouver, British Columbia
This quirky piece of naval artillery has been deafening Canadians for over a century.
Vancouver, British Columbia
What happens when a sculptor has to find a way around a 100-year-old copyright.
Vancouver, British Columbia
A pixel art killer whale is frozen mid-leap in this Vancouver square.
Vancouver, British Columbia
This exaggerated sculpture resembles a well known feature of Vancouver:
Vancouver, British Columbia
A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.
Fort Worth, Texas
A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.
Vancouver, British Columbia
Made of granite, this is a symbol of the Inuit peoples near water that expresses abundance.
Vancouver, British Columbia
The colorful, smiling concrete silos of Vancouver.
Vancouver, British Columbia
This conservatory allows a little bit of the tropics to thrive in the middle of a major Canadian city.
Surrey, British Columbia
A colorful hidden village of the fair folk.