OKOTOKS ERRATIC: The Rock That Ran

Known as the 'Big Rock' or 'The Rock that Ran', the Okotoks Erratic is an enormous glacial boulder that was transported by glacial ice hundreds of kilometres from the Rocky Mountains to its present-day location just west of the Town of Okotoks, Alberta.

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Website: https://www.alberta.ca/okotoks-erratic-big-rock.aspx

Location: AB-7, Black Diamond, AB T0L 0H0

BOSWELL BOTTLE HOUSE

The Glass House, built by David H. Brown, is located on the east shore of Kootenay Lake in British Columbia near the rural locality of Boswell, British Columbia. Built in 1952, it is constructed of approximately 500,000 empty embalming fluid bottles, which would have otherwise been discarded as waste.

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Location: 11341 BC-3A, Sanca, BC V0B 1A2

VANCOUVERS SECRET VIEWPOINT & (Not So) SECRET TREEHOUSE

Tucked away within Montrose Park in Burnaby is Vancouvers secret viewpoint, a treehouse which provides a unique and spectacular view of Vancouver's Iron Workers Memorial Bridge.

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Location: 3714-4088,3751-3999 Montrose St, Burnaby, BC

Mima Mounds

Mima mounds In Washington State are low, flattened, circular to oval, domelike, natural mounds that are composed of loose, unstratified, often gravelly sediment. Theories for the origin of Mima mounds geology include burrowing by pocket gophers; accumulation of wind-blown sediment around vegetation; seismic ground shaking by major earthquakes and shrinking and swelling of clays.

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Website: http://www.dnr.wa.gov/MimaMounds

Location: 12315 Waddell Creek Rd SW, Olympia, WA 98512, United States

Gravity Hill Maple Ridge

A gravity hill, is a place where the layout of the surrounding land produces an optical illusion, making a slight downhill slope appear to be an uphill slope although sites are often accompanied by claims that magnetic or supernatural forces are at work.

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Location: McKee Rd, Abbotsford, BC V3G 2L6

Freemont Troll

Indie shops and hip bars pack the Fremont Seattle neighborhood on the north bank of the canal. Quirky outdoor sculptures include the gigantic Freemont Troll, lurking under the Aurora Bridge, and the towering Fremont Rocket. The Troll was featured in the Heath Ledger film 10 Things I Hate About You.

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Website: http://www.seattle.gov/neighborhoods/programs-and-services/p-patch-community-gardening/p-patch-list/trolls-knoll

Location: N 36th St, Seattle, WA 98103, United States

Yard Birds

The Yard Birds Roadside Attraction was originally a surplus store started in 1947 in Centralia, Washington. Yard Birds stores had a logo that featured a black bird with a yellow beak, reminiscent of the cartoon characters Heckle and Jeckle.

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Location: 2100 N National Ave, Chehalis, WA 98532, United States

World Famous Giant Shoe Museum

The World Famous Shoe Museum displays part of the collection of Danny Eskenazi, who became obsessed with giant shoes after he'd learned that his grandfather had once owned a wingtip worn by Robert Wadlow, the world's tallest man.

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Website: https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/15540

Location: 1501 Pike Pl # 424, Seattle, WA 98101, United States

Pike Place Market Gum Wall

The Market Theater Gum Wall is a brick wall covered in used chewing gum located in an alleyway in Post Alley under Pike Place Market in Downtown Seattle. Much like Bubblegum Alley in San Luis Obispo, California, the Market Theater Gum Wall is a local landmark. Parts of the wall are covered several inches thick, 15 feet high along a 50-foot-long section.

The wall is by the box office for the Market Theater. The tradition began around 1993 when patrons of Unexpected Productions' Seattle Theatresports stuck gum to the wall and placed coins in the gum blobs. Theater workers scraped the gum away twice, but eventually gave up after market officials deemed the gum wall a tourist attraction around 1999.

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Website: https://unexpectedproductions.org/gumwall/

Location: 1428 Post Alley, Seattle, WA 98101, United States

World's Worst Bus Stop

To highlight the sad and dangerous state of our bus stops, StreetsBlog held a 16-entry tournament to crown North Americas Worst Bus Stop in 2018. The horrendous bus stop on the Lougheed Highway in Pitt Meadows, just outside of Vancouver won, trouncing Cincinnati landslide.

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Location: Pitt Meadows, BC V3Y 1Z1

World's Tallest Flagpole

Visiting the current home of the giant flag and flagpole, which held the record of World's Tallest Flagpole when it was erected for Vancouver's 1986 World Expo.

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Location: Under the Flag, 15250 104 Ave, Surrey, BC V3R 6N8

World's Largest Horse Clock

Constructed from recycled materials and a Commodore 64, this Maple Ridge landmark reminds citizens of the impact consumerism and pollution can have on the regions natural environment.

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Location: 22470-22514 Dewdney Trunk Rd, Maple Ridge, BC