An effigy of Vancouver's Gastown neighorhood's namesake.

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

The ruins of Vancouver's abandoned heritage railway.

The colorful, smiling concrete silos of Vancouver.

The collection of signage remembers the midcentury pushback against the new neon light.

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

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

This historic Victorian hotel has a scandalous history of affairs and murder.

A famous hotel houses an impression collection of mini dioramas and giant doll houses.

Historic psychiatric asylum and most-filmed location in the Great White North.

A working model of the entire San Francisco Bay and much of the Sacramento River Delta, complete with regular tides that change every 14 minutes.

Frank Lloyd Wright died a year before construction on his largest public project even began.

'Cause the fence start shaking, the earth was quaking.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

The southernmost outpost of the Russian Empire in colonial America.

This whimsical seashell-shaped place of worship was designed to blend into its surroundings.

The mysterious round rocks of Schooner Gulch.

A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

A crumbling wizard is one of the final reminders of a roadside Middle Earth.

A vaudeville performer mounted this hollowed-out redwood log onto the chassis of a truck, and toured the country spreading a message of conservation.

Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.