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

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

This now abandoned arch bridge was constructed during the Great Depression.

Just outside this metal recycling center stands a prehistoric creature composed of scraps.

Sample cuisine inspired by the Great Plains indigenous people who have been gathering at this sacred Canadian Heritage Park for 6,000 years.

This small collection in the back of a shop is the only oddities museum in Saskatoon.

Former meatpacking facility turned vertical farm and sustainable business complex.

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

With the touch of a button, you can read a randomly selected short story.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.

These WWII-era murals were initially booed as a libelous portrayal of the American dream but have survived multiple attempts to have them destroyed.

This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.

A shining, cold, black organ lies in San Francisco's financial district.

The oldest dim sum restaurant in the United States is a nostalgic jewel.

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.

From scholastic to sepulchral - now under reconstruction.

A sliver of nostalgia in Seattle's Viretta Park.

The 16th-century church has the only stained glass windows that survived the Scottish Reformation intact.

The only thing stranger than stumbling onto these philosophical musings is the story of the homesteader who created them.