A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

An old-timey peepshow allows visitors to gawk at some of the world's most freakishly large footwear.

Allowing humans and fish alike to migrate from freshwater to saltwater and back again.

A young botanist's horticultural vision realized through a lifetime of planting, tending, and collecting seeds.

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.

An eclectic restaurant serving from and to the nearby Chittenden Locks.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

The spur that wouldn’t die.

A commemorative mural in this tiny Ballard park honors the neighborhood's rich Scandinavian ties, particularly with Seattle's Norwegian sister city Bergen.

With its vaulted ceiling and gilded details, this University of Washington library would feel right at home inside an old palace.

Where else would a linchpin of post-colonial Native American cuisine anchor the menu but a museum?

This remarkable collection devoted to the study of fish includes 1 million preserved specimens from all around the world.

This steep cable railway has been hoisting passengers in the heart of Québec City for over a century.

This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.

Canada's largest graveyard boasts a lot of noteworthy artifacts as well as its own computerized mapping service.

A historic Montreal market that was the city's agricultural hub for over century.

The skyline of Montreal includes the silhouette of an unexpected fruit-shaped Canadian staple.

Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.

A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.

One of Canada's oldest museums, the beautiful Redpath has been serving up Natural History and Ethnography since 1882.

This bomb shelter-themed bar has barely changed since it opened.

One of the oldest Mexican restaurants in the United States air-dries its trademark beef in a dangling outdoor cage.

From working out of his garage to the James Beard semifinals, one Tucson baker has kept his fan base—and his grains—local.