A giant roadside black bird marks the location of this eclectic local mall.

Granting the right of way to ships over surface traffic since 1917.

An electrifying collection of gadgets and literature from the 16th through 20th centuries.

A colorful statue honoring the local salmon in glass and bronze.

The cardinal directions, set in stone.

This grand old 80-foot sequoia towers above the buildings in the city’s retail center.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

An American city stranded at the tip of a Canadian peninsula where strict adherence to the "49th parallel rule" became problematic.

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

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

The highest point in Washington state is a volcano covered in glaciers.

Twin Peaks' real life Double R Diner has been restored to its damn fine television look.

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

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

The remains of a Canadian train crash are now mouldering beneath layers of rust and graffiti.

This expansive bridge in the Canadian wilderness was originally just built for friends.

Featuring the the longest lift span of any vertical-lift bridge in the world.

Infamous marsh filled with toxic waste, World War II-era London rubble, and dead mobsters galore.

A bronze plaque at an intersection in Hoboken marks the place where the game of baseball first took shape.

On the Hudson resides one of the largest clocks in the world.

World Trade Center memorial likened to a woman's sexual organ.

Now abandoned, the first public health hospital in the U.S. saw more than one million immigrants from around the world.

Step inside Lucy, the world's largest "elephant."

The remains of a 19th century spring, and the site of an infamous unsolved murder.