Victoria, British Columbia
The Empress Hotel
This historic Victorian hotel has a scandalous history of affairs and murder.
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Victoria, British Columbia
This historic Victorian hotel has a scandalous history of affairs and murder.
Vancouver, British Columbia
A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.
Sedro-Woolley, Washington
Former farm staffed by mental patients is now a public park.
Tacoma, Washington
This famous bridge twisted itself into oblivion, but not for the reason you might think.
Drummond, Montana
This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.
Spokane, Washington
A giant milk bottle from the 1930s beckons drivers to this diner.
Spokane, Washington
The decorations were inspired by an unlikely missing treasure.
McMinnville, Oregon
The wooden airship was the largest flying boat ever built.
McMinnville, Oregon
Home of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose.
Boise, Idaho
Jail from the 19th century that was built by inmates.
Boise, Idaho
The largest outdoor art gallery in the Northwest United States.
Las Vegas, Nevada
An overlooked monument to the celebrity gangster who helped put the sin in Sin City.
Las Vegas, Nevada
An exotic wildlife habitat right off The Strip.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Fans of vintage Vegas, kitsch, and toy pony-based gambling now flock to a casino called The D.
Virginia City, Nevada
Back in the day everyone who was anyone played this historic western theater.
Kaunas, Lithuania
Where a Japanese government official issued transit visas to Jews fleeing from Nazi-occupied Poland.
Vilnius, Lithuania
A 300-kilogram egg sculpture that embodied a neighborhood revival.
Vilnius, Lithuania
This micro-nation may be some sort of prank, but its constitution sure seems official.
Vilnius, Lithuania
Legend has it that Napoleon Bonaparte fell in love with this Gothic church.
Vilnius, Lithuania
Plaques celebrating Lithuanian writers freckle a wall of this picture-perfect path.
Vilnius, Lithuania
This former KGB building is now a museum memorializing the people who suffered during the Soviet regime.
Vilnius, Lithuania
The Frank Zappa fan club erected this monument to their prog-rock hero to mark a new era of post-Soviet Lithuania.
Wallace, Idaho
The mayor made the declaration in 2004.
St Regis, Montana
Between Missoula and Spokane, a family-owned travel center has an unusual museum in the back.