The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

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

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

The only theatre in the world constructed specifically for sound movement.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

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

A sacred lake composed of over 300 separate pools of highly concentrated minerals.

A surviving remnant of the thick ice mass that once mantled most of Western Canada's mountains.

Few other hotels can rival the grandeur of the Castle in the Rockies.

Hoodoos, naturally eroded land formations, stand 20 feet tall in the Canadian badlands.

Futuristic apartment blocks are the backdrop for Montreal surfers hangin' ten on the Habitat '67 standing wave.

This chilly Canadian hotel has a four-month lifespan due to the unusual material it's made of.