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Hauntingly beautiful totem poles left by the Haida.

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.

Housing a morgue, rare and confiscated weapons, and autopsy remains, the Vancouver police museum displays the dark side of Canada.

This mundane shopping plaza is named after a gruesome piece of flotsam.

Cave carved out of a huge snow drift collapsed killing one and injuring five in July 2015.

Houses are tucked between, on, and underneath giant boulders.

Of the many chalices in the running for the Holy Grail, this one in Valencia Cathedral sure looks the part.

The site of a strange super top-secret military experiment during WWII on a remote Canadian lake.

An enchanting monastery in the Spanish countryside appears lifted from a fantasy tale.

An intricately carved Viking church overlooks a glistening fjord.

Walk behind a 50-meter-high waterfall.

Across the Pacific in a raft, a museum dedicated to Thor Heyerdahl's now legendary expedition.

This giant boulder is pinched over a 1000-meter abyss by two mountains.

Europe's only museum solely dedicated to the history of whaling still has a fully-functioning whaling ship.

A small collection of magic tricks and memorabilia is now an apartment-sized museum.

From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.

A beautiful final resting place for some of the noteworthy deceased.

A high point in Vancouver kitsch.

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

A large spinning bath of liquid mercury, used to probe the early universe.

Outsider art meets hard scrabble mountain life in this woodcarver's home/art piece.

One of the oldest continually operating drinking establishments west of the Mississippi.

Train debris from the deadliest avalanche in United States history can still be found in the ravine where so many perished.

Legend says that these tall basalt pillars are the petrified wives of a trickster god.