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Fraser River Heritage Park & Pioneer Cemetery

O.M.I. Cemetery sign reading: Dedicated to the memory of the pioneers at Fraser River Heritage Park The Fraser River Heritage Park is a large park located on the former site of St. Mary’s Indian Residential School in Mission, British Columbia. The park has a panoramic view of the Fraser River Valley and Mount Baker. Special features of the park are the foundations of the school buildings, the original orchard, the heritage plants in the rhododendron and rose gardens, and the reconstructed Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes. The Oblates of Mary Immaculate (O.M.I.) Cemetery is currently on the eastern edge of the Fraser River Heritage Park and is still in use as a cemetery today. The cemetery was the burial site for the priests, nuns, and students of the St. Mary's Mission and Residential School and for many years it was the only cemetery in the area.

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Website: https://www.mission.ca/municipal-hall/departments/parks-recreation-and-culture/fraser-river-heritage-park/

Location: 7494 Mary St, Mission, BC V2V 6Y9

Whistler Train Wreck and Brandywine Falls

Abandoned wreckage of train cars covered in grafitti at Whistler Train Wreck Brandywine Falls Provincial Park, near Whistler, British Columbia provides visitors with a view of the 70-meter (230 ft) falls created when Brandywine Creek plummets into a deep gorge formed by millions of years of erosion.

Whistler Train Wreck is a popular tourist spot, where the remains of a sixty year old train derailment sits among the ancient trees and near the banks of the Cheakamus River. Seven boxcars have covered in colourful graffiti and then surrounded by hiking and mountain bike trails.

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World Famous Rubber Chicken Museum

yellow chicken costume and other souvenirs at the Archie McPhee World Famous Rubber Chicken Museum Archie McPhee's offers a dazzling collection of unique, bizarre, weird and wonderful novelties for sale and is home to the World Famous Rubber Chicken Museum and the Wallingford Beast, a Fiji Mermaid style oddity.

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Website: http://www.archiemcpheeseattle.com/

Location: 1300 N 45th St, Seattle, WA 98103, United States

Parkhurst Ghost Town

Parkhurst BC Abandoned Town, former logging settlement on the shores of Green Lake near Whistler BC, is littered with historical artefacts including collapsed buildings, abandoned cars, old stoves, and even an intact cabin. The town has been uninhabited since the 1960s and is slowly being reclaimed by the forest.

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Abandoned Homes

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I ran across these abandoned houses and decided to find out what was inside. Turns out there was more to the story as this was once the location of a well known roadside cafe, but also the site where a major motion picture was filmed!

Old Mill Site Park

Old Mill Site Park is along the north end of the Shoreline Trail in Port Moody, approximately half-way between Port Moody Rec Center and Old Orchard Park. This park features the remains of the McNair Cedar Mill, destroyed by fire in 1959. Visitors can still access the brick and concrete foundations at low tide. The city refers to these as "relics" of a previous era. Old Mill Site Park can also be reached as part of the Shoreline Trail that winds along the coast of the Burrard Inlet in Port Moody from Rocky Point Park to Old Orchard Park.

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Rat Portage Mill Site

In 1903 the Rat Portage company bought the rights to the lumber mill at the Harrison Mills BC Townsite after a fire deserted the original buildings and machinery. When the new mill was opened in 1909, it was one of BC's largest sawmills. However, after World War 1 Rat Portage decided to pull out of the town altogether, to concentrate on its mill in Vancouver. The machinery was sold and the buildings left vacant, until a fire in 1930 claimed most of what was left.

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Remains of Worlds Longest Floating Bridge

In 1963, the Washington State Department of Transportation achieved a Guinness World Record when it constructed the worlds longest floating bridge which connected the cities of Bellevue and Seattle. The SR 520 Bridge, completed in August 1963 and measuring 2.39 miles in length, with a floating section stretching for almost 1.5 miles.

The bridge carried four lanes of traffic, separated by a curb that was later replaced with a simple Jersey barrier. At the center was a drawspan that opened for large vessels traversing the lake.

After serving Washington State for over 50 years it had begun to show it's age. The original Evergreen Point Floating Bridge was designed before the implementation of modern earthquake engineering standards, with vulnerabilities in its hollow support structures that could have failed in a major earthquake. Additionally, vibrations caused by storm surges and strong winds were able to compromise the aging drawspan, anchor cables and pontoons, which could lead to structural failure in a major storm. This required the bridge to close to traffic during sustained wind gusts of 50 miles per hour or higher for more than 15 minutes.

Although the original bridge carried two lanes of traffic in each direction, it did not include shoulders or pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure. The lack of a shoulder led to traffic congestion in the event of an accident, which would block one or two lanes in a given direction and block emergency services from accessing the bridge.

The new bridge was dedicated on April 2, 2016, and was certified by Guinness World Records as the new world's longest floating bridge at a length of 7,708.49 feet long, 130 feet longer than the bridge it replaced.

The bridge was deconstructed into sections 110 metres long with 25-centimetre thick walls and pontoons. It was supposed to be floated to an industrial site in Kenmore for disposal and recycling.However, the city rejected the plan, citing the possible release of toxins in the pontoon's concrete. The sections were acquired by True North Operations Group with the goal of re-purposing the pontoons as temporary or permanent docks or off-loading facilities, piers or offshore storage.

Four years later, the majority of the pontoons continue to sit unused in the Pitt River.

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Barnet Mill Site

The North Pacific Lumber Company Mill known as the Barnet Mill was built in 1889 which spotted the growth of the Village of Barnet. Mills operated at that site until the 1950s and burnt down on two separate occasions. The town faded and in 1972 the land was sold to the municipality of Burnaby which turned the site into a marine park. Today you can still see a few taxes if the past including pillars and concrete foundations from the old mill.

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Abandoned Pet Cemetery

This now abandoned Pet Cemetery was founded by Daniel and Mary Blair. After their dog died, they decided to create this pet cemetery, believed to be the only one in BC, which opened in 1952. Nearly 700 pets have been buried here over the years, including dogs, cats, gerbils, birds, guinea pigs, and many other species. The cemetery is currently unmaintained,  unprotected and partially-overgrown, making many of the graves hard to spot.

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IOCO Townsite

This now abandoned Pet Cemetery was founded by Daniel and Mary Blair. After their dog died, they decided to create this pet cemetery, believed to be the only one in BC, which opened in 1952. Nearly 700 pets have been buried here over the years, including dogs, cats, gerbils, birds, guinea pigs, and many other species. The cemetery is currently unmaintained,  unprotected and partially-overgrown, making many of the graves hard to spot.

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Langley Speedway

Langley Speedway was a 1/4-mile paved oval track used for stock car racing located in Langley, British Columbia. The track opened in 1965 and closed in 1984. The track hosted numerous classes of racing during its operational existence, including several visits from the NASCAR Winston West series in the 1970s. For the last few years prior to its closing due to its lease not being renewed, the track was known as Action Raceway.

The Langley Speedway Historical Society (LSHS) has lobbied governments in the area to preserve the facility, holding clean-up events at and around the track. In 2006, the GVRD Parks Committee voted unanimously to support heritage listing of the speedway. The GVRD Board also voted unanimously to support the listing. In September 2006, the Council of the Township of Langley voted unanimously to include Langley Speedway on its Heritage Resource Listing. The LSHS is currently working with the GVRD staff and other interested groups in its efforts to preserve the site and promote it for various event uses, including car shows.

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Ladner Creek Trestle

The Ladner Creek Trestle was abandoned after the Kettle Valley Railway stopped running in the 1960's. Since then, the dilapidated trestle has become a popular hike photo opportunity for those willing to hike the unmaintained and sometimes treacherous trails.

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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

wEIRDOS Market

Weirdos Market Vancouver returns for it's 3rd year!! Hold on tight – because things are about to get WEIRD! Vancouver’s one-stop-shop for all things unusual, unique, and out of this world is bigger and crazier than ever before! Weirdos unites BC's most awesome and unconventional local artists who create gifts from the kooky to the macabre for those rad folks looking to fulfill the quirkiest of needs on their holiday shopping lists!

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Ripley's Believe it or Not Times Square

RIPLEY'S MUSEUM TIMES SQUARE is a one-of-a-kind attraction welcomes visitors to immerse themselves in the unusual, the unexpected and the unbelievable. Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Times Square showcases some of the most incredible exhibits found in New York City, many of them discovered and owned by Robert Ripley himself!

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Website: https://ripleysnewyork.com/

Location: 234 W 42nd St, New York, NY 10036, United States

Ripley's Believe it or Not Newport Oregon

Ripley's Believe it or Not Oregon showcases exhibits from the worlds of science and illusions, hands-on interactive displays, videos, wax figures, rare artifacts, and special effects set in themed surroundings. The exhibits gathered by Ripley's seem too weird to be true, so believe it or not! This version of the Newport Ripley's no longer exists - It was been closed for a complete renovation and reopened in 2020.

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Paxton Gate

Ripley's Believe it or Not Oregon showcases exhibits from the worlds of science and illusions, hands-on interactive displays, videos, wax figures, rare artifacts, and special effects set in themed surroundings. The exhibits gathered by Ripley's seem too weird to be true, so believe it or not! This version of the Newport Ripley's no longer exists - It was been closed for a complete renovation and reopened in 2020.

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Website: http://www.paxtongate.com/

Location: 4204 N Mississippi Ave, Portland, OR 97217, United States

Ye Olde Curiosity Shop

Seattle Oddities Shop, the Ye Olde Curiosity Shop on Pier 54, showcases a huge collection of the weird and wonderful including human mummies, animal oddities (2-Headed Duckling Riding a Skateboard??), shrunken heads and more!

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Website: http://yeoldecuriosityshop.com/

Location: Pier 54, 1001 Alaskan Way, Seattle, WA 98104, United States