Makers and sellers of the original and finest York Ghosts.

A wooden sculpture sits rather out of place in this Mexican beach town.

A Lovecraftian altar of nightmarish bronze chairs sits ominously on a boardwalk in Puerto Vallarta.

This sculpture marks the spot where one of the greatest Roman rulers was proclaimed emperor.

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 haunting ruins of Jack London's dream house.

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

Surprisingly Delicious Asian-Style Hot Dogs.

A renegade art installation in a small Vancouver park is now officially sanctioned by the City Parks Department.

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

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

Nursery with extensive collection of flesh-eating plants operated by the author of "The Savage Garden."

A tribute to the life and work of the beloved "Peanuts" cartoonist.

Hand-powered race of alternative forms of transportation.

One of the shortest streets in York has an especially odd name.

The National Railway Museum in York is the largest railway museum in the world, attracting almost 1 million visitors per year.

This network of narrow, medieval passages has the most delightful name.