Antiques shop filled with all manner of curious collectibles.

An effigy of Vancouver's Gastown neighorhood's namesake.

An ideal location for plane spotting in British Columbia.

The "plyscraper" is the world's tallest building made predominantly out of wood.

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

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

A controversial blue hoop has been puzzling freeway drivers since 2013.

City Council meetings still happen in this historic building, impeccably preserved on the inside.

Stones speckled along Harris Avenue reveal hidden nuggets of the past.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

Perhaps the world's only gas station inspired by a political scandal.

A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.

One small town in the Pacific Northwest transformed itself into a Bavarian-themed tourist destination.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.

No telescopes, no power, no gift shop: The Observatory of Chichen Itza, one of the world's oldest observatories, takes astronomy back to basics.

According to myth, Zeus himself was hidden in this cave to escape being eaten by his dad.

A minotaur, a labyrinth, and a dubious restoration pull in visitors from around the world.

A herd of colorfully painted bovine statues can be found in the middle of "cowtown."

A sleepy little town that had the greatest landslide in North American history fall on it.

As if T-rex wasn't big enough, this Canadian monument is four times larger than the real thing.

A mysterious taxidermy man-beast of the seven seas.

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

This rare example of Vancouver's Victorian past was the home of one of the city's first bookbinders.