This lake in the Cascades lives up to its name, disappearing down a hole every spring.

The colorful, smiling concrete silos of Vancouver.

At just six feet two inches deep, it is said by Guiness and Ripley to be the world’s narrowest freestanding office building.

While these wooden totems bear a striking resemblance to First Nations artwork of British Columbia, their actual origins lay on the opposite side of the Pacific Ocean.

A renegade art installation in a small Vancouver park is now officially sanctioned by the City Parks Department.

Traditional 15th century Chinese garden in the middle of Vancouver.

A small and quirky museum hidden inside a fence.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

The world's smallest park was dedicated in 1948 as the only colony for leprechauns west of Ireland.

A plaque on Canada's Hornby Island commemorates a fantastical creature from a fictional universe.

The whimsical legacy of a Canadian artist.

Austin’s nonprofit-run graffiti park where street art is meant to be painted over.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

A store full of vintage and indie toys designed to bring out the kid in even the crustiest of adults.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

This sandstone mansion was the home of two of Oregon's most important pioneers.

The magic's in the hole!

The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

The tech giant built three enormous glass orbs in Seattle so employees could work inside a rainforest greenhouse.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.