After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

The words of the neighborhood's most famous poets adorn four concrete walls.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

Where a great scandal unfolded with a famous female revivalist at its center.

60 feet of towering steel balances gracefully.

The spot in the Mile-High City that's exactly 5,280 feet above sea level (at least for now).

Once a mortuary that held the remains of Buffalo Bill, this Denver hotspot is now a death-fixated restaurant.

A Lovecraftian altar of nightmarish bronze chairs sits ominously on a boardwalk in Puerto Vallarta.

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

This country market harbors goats on its roof.

Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.

A herd of colorfully painted bovine statues can be found in the middle of "cowtown."

A face emerges from the landscape when seen from the air.

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

One artist's yard is full of shining, whirling kinetic sculptures that look like pure steel psychedelia.

The world’s largest LED display, built over an F1 race circuit.

The largest falcon hospital in the world, caring for over 6,000 feathered patients every year.

Planned as the world’s first zero-carbon city, it had lofty ideals—but is only 5 percent completed and aiming for 50 percent carbon-neutral.

This enormous sports car themed amusement park is home to the world’s fastest roller coaster.

Whitewashed mosque contains the world's largest carpet.

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.

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

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

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