The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

Chicago's Navy Pier on Lake Michigan was a training hub for aircraft carrier pilots during WWII.

This museum on San Juan Island is dedicated to the conservation of orca pods.

This historic bridge connects Whidbey Island to Fidalgo Island across whirlpool-filled waters.

After spending more than a century on the ocean floor, this shipwrecked column is finally resting atop solid ground.

This museum and curiosity shop provides a glimpse into an often-overlooked past to show guests that there is beauty and wonder in the macabre.

The oldest restaurant in Portland serves fiery coffee cocktails and an astounding amount of turkey.

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

What happens when a sculptor has to find a way around a 100-year-old copyright.

Step aboard the first ship to circumnavigate North America.

Made of granite, this is a symbol of the Inuit peoples near water that expresses abundance.

This bar is home to what's likely the oldest living jazz band in the world.

The magic's in the hole!

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

Legend says one of the world's largest marine geysers is actually a whale that got wedged within the rocks.

This conservatory allows a little bit of the tropics to thrive in the middle of a major Canadian city.

This Art Deco masterpiece has stood in for some of the most famous buildings in comic book history.

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.

Since its original beginnings as a weather observatory mountaintop, this facility played an instrumental role in gathering atmospheric data for almost 100 years.

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!

Try the alligator at this fondue spot, which has been catering to "lovers and hedonists" since 1967.

The natural hot spring that was integral to the creation of Canada's first national park.

A mysterious taxidermy man-beast of the seven seas.