Las Vegas, Nevada
'The Mantis'
Las Vegas's very own 40-foot-tall fire-spewing praying mantis.
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Las Vegas, Nevada
Las Vegas's very own 40-foot-tall fire-spewing praying mantis.
Bankhead, Alberta
The ruins of the "20-year town" lay out among the mountains of Alberta.
Canmore, Alberta
The granite head appears to be deep in thought and half buried in the ground.
Kovach, Alberta
Three pristine alpine lakes named in memorial of an accident that resulted in three different plane crashes.
Kananaskis, Alberta
A stone troll guards the hike that leads to this waterfall.
Calgary, Alberta
With its webbed walls and bright red coloring, Calgary's iconic bridge looks like a finger trap puzzle stretched across the river.
Drumheller, Alberta
A six-person chapel in the middle of Alberta's badlands.
Drumheller, Alberta
As if T-rex wasn't big enough, this Canadian monument is four times larger than the real thing.
Drumheller, Alberta
Hoodoos, naturally eroded land formations, stand 20 feet tall in the Canadian badlands.
Drumheller, Alberta
A seven-story wooden coal tipple stands this former mine, the last of many that once covered this area.
Vancouver, British Columbia
A hat for every occasion can be found in this British Columbia haunt.
Vancouver, British Columbia
The colorful, smiling concrete silos of Vancouver.
Vancouver, British Columbia
This exaggerated sculpture resembles a well known feature of Vancouver:
Vancouver, British Columbia
A pixel art killer whale is frozen mid-leap in this Vancouver square.
Vancouver, British Columbia
This quirky piece of naval artillery has been deafening Canadians for over a century.
Vancouver, British Columbia
What happens when a sculptor has to find a way around a 100-year-old copyright.
Bellevue, Alberta
A sleepy little town that had the greatest landslide in North American history fall on it.
Sparwood, British Columbia
Nestled near the mountains of western Canada resides this behemoth earth mover.
Bellevue, Alberta
Despite being dead since the 1970s, this Canadian tree is kept upright and intact by adoring locals.
Waterton Park, Alberta
A majestic hotel that also stands as a historic relic.
Aden, Alberta
Blackfoot petroglyphs of southern Alberta which date back as far as 7000 B.C.
Tilley, Alberta
Built to supply water to farmers in Alberta, this was once was the world's longest elevated concrete structure.
Prelate, Saskatchewan
These little-known sands dunes are a geological anomaly in Saskatchewan's southern prairies.
Maple Creek, Saskatchewan
When North America was covered in ice, this was an oasis in the frozen desert.