Hide from the tourist hordes in these relatively unknown, and unguarded lava caves.

This black shoreline is made up of exploded lava particles.

One of the largest trees of its kind in California.

The world's largest outdoor organ is played weekly by one of just two civic organists in the U.S.

Housed in a memorial lighthouse, this museum relays the history of surfing, beginning with the antics of royal Hawaiian teenagers.

This concrete ship has had four careers - World War I tanker, floating amusement park, fishing pier, and artificial reef.

A giant snail sculpture looking longingly at the German traffic museum.

This conservatory allows a little bit of the tropics to thrive in the middle of a major Canadian city.

This Art Deco masterpiece has stood in for some of the most famous buildings in comic book history.

This exaggerated sculpture resembles a well known feature of Vancouver:

These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.

Fragments of architectural wonders from around the globe are embedded in the newspaper building's walls.

This alley in downtown Chicago held the bodies of over 600 people after the fateful Iroquois Theatre fire.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

A normal, unassuming pedestrian overpass has been the demise of many, many trucks.

These machines have been collecting dust for decades.

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

The magic's in the hole!

The U.S. Navy's last diesel-electric submarine rests half-submerged in the middle of Portland.

Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.

The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.

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.