After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

60 feet of towering steel balances gracefully.

Her final resting place was intended to be modest and private, but the power of her popularity continues to draw visitors.

Sit where JFK proposed to Jackie or where Nixon dined on meatloaf at this storied pub.

The U.S. Fish Commission’s effort to mass produce carp.

While most wind tunnels test scale models, the "Cave of Winds" was large enough for actual airplanes.

Before Metro, Washington had a robust streetcar network—and you see the remains of this infrastructure if you know where to look.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

This bridge over D.C.'s Rock Creek Park is sometimes called the "Buffalo Bridge" because of its four buffalo sculptures, which were cast from a single piece of bronze.

This exaggerated sculpture resembles a well known feature of Vancouver:

This jagged colossus of a building is mostly held together by an enormous concrete exoskeleton.

A converted hangar displays dozens of helicopters, from a famous 1943 rescue chopper to several autogyros.

Established in 1937, the oldest candy shop in New York City boasts a rainbow-colored inventory that would make Willy Wonka envious.

What was once a true peninsula has now been filled in, causing the water to recede and leaving many streetside "waterfronts" and landlocked "islands."

A beacon atop a downtown building provides Bostonians with weather forecasts and baseball news.

A downtown park built on top of unclaimed graves.

A pixel art killer whale is frozen mid-leap in this Vancouver square.

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

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

This unique bridge curls up like a caterpillar to let boats pass and then unfurls again to span a small canal.

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

At the top of the hour, figures of the London department store's two co-founders emerge and bow to each other.