The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

Chicago's Navy Pier on Lake Michigan was a training hub for aircraft carrier pilots during WWII.

Home to the Amorphophallus titanum "Corpse Flower," which is among the largest flowers in the world and also smells powerfully of rotting flesh when in bloom.

Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...

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

From mining complex to industrial exhibition, this museum once played a major part in the X-Files.

Bird dung painted this huge boulder which in turn inspired the name of a city.

A historic highway suspension bridge on the old Fraser River highway has been preserved for non-motorized traffic.

A construction mishap at this narrows on the Fraser River rendered it impassable to many migrating fish species, with international consequences.

The morning of January 9, 1965, over 46 million cubic meters of earth, rock, and snow broke free, obliterating a section of the highway below.

Railways may have forged this quintet of lovely tunnels, but now they are open to hikers.

An old world fairytale-land with over 350 fairy folk figurines hidden amongst 800 year old cedars.

A historic ghost town still worth a visit.

This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

South Dakota's oldest operating brewery is housed inside a historic firehouse.

A memorial to the most decisive Native American victory of the Plains Indian War.

Underground tunnels once home to crime are now back open to the public.

The world's largest moose statue is located (where else?) in Canada.

This mysterious taxidermy man-beast of the seven seas resides at the Banff Trading Post.

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

This natural wonder is disappearing at an alarming rate.

Cascading outward, this waterfall creates the appearance of a flowing veil.

Drift through decades of high desert music history at this funky hometown museum.