Over 1,000 pieces of one of the most niche art objects imaginable: the glass paperweight.

Home to a protest movement, a bombing, and a dramatic change in labor history.

A little-known subterranean street runs under some of the best-known buildings in Chicago's River North.

In 2004, a Dave Matthews Band tour bus dumped 800 pounds of waste off a bridge and onto an unsuspecting tour boat below.

The last masonry skyscraper ever built reveals a transitional moment in architectural history.

According to the local First Nations folklore, this rock was once a man.

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

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

This quirky piece of naval artillery has been deafening Canadians for over a century.

Surprisingly delicious Asian-style hot dogs.

A pixel art killer whale is frozen mid-leap in this Vancouver square.

This exaggerated sculpture resembles a well known feature of Vancouver:

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

This is an amazing but little known tile mosaic mural that used to grace the lobby of an office building in 1958, but now can only be seen from the second floor of a Shoppers Drug Mart.

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

A unique spiral staircase that doesn't quite make it up to the top floor.

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

This enormous photomural pays homage to Vancouver's infamous history of public activism.

Amazing pre-Civil War ruins alongside a shallow, rocky river that hosts beautiful (but endangered) lilies.

One of the largest wooden constructions in Europe was meant to be a casino, but soon became an orphanage.

This hotel was the site of major events in sports and radio history. It was also used as a detention center during World War II.

In 1958, an MIT fraternity pledge laid down on this bridge and instituted a new, unique unit of measurement.

This bridge was the birthplace of a unit of measurement based on a fraternity joke.

Harry Houdini plunged into the Charles River and performed one of his escape acts here in 1908.