Places 100indecisions Wants to Go

This remote fort on the Yukon River is a vestige of the wild Alaska gold rush.

On top of a sheet metal business in Juneau stand nearly a dozen charming Wizard of Oz statues.

An auroral research program that superheats the ionosphere.

A morbid gateway to an Alaska town prides itself on the hunting history it represents.

The facade of this relic from the Klondike gold rush is decorated with over 8,800 pieces of driftwood.

The sculpture's largest spire points directly toward the North Star.

Siberian husky that delivered a life-saving antitoxin.

A giant poultry statue immortalizes one of Alaska's more humorous town names.

This historic collection of Native Alaskan artifacts was resurrected through a partnership between the WPA and tribal artisans.

Originally a brothel during the Klondike Gold Rush, this bar once used dolls to denote when ladies were working.

This frozen tunnel in central Alaska is both an engineering feat and a valuable climate classroom.

Upside-down trees serve as natural flower pots in this hanging garden of Alaska.

This vintage train once gave new meaning to “swimming upstream.”

Mining town from the late 1890s, once home to Calamity Jane.

Derelict buildings are all that remain of a complex at the site of one of the worst mining disasters in Montana history.

Native Americans built this circle of stones, which was used to predict astronomical events.

The crumbling structure is a rare surviving relic of the area's bygone mining industry.

The ruins of the "20-year town" lay out among the mountains of Alberta.

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.

A relic of roadside lore and perhaps the first of its kind in North America.

The deserted railroad town had a last gasp as a ghost town attraction before being abandoned for good.

A crumbling ghost town on the South Dakota prairie.

A six-ton, 12-foot-tall concrete prairie dog is touted as the largest in the world.

A place where the laws of nature seem to have gone completely berserk... but of course haven't.