Cold War missile site at high alert during the Cuban Missile Crisis, now a post-apocalyptic backdrop.

See a full-scale whale skeleton and experience the captivating culture of Alaska’s Native people at this heritage center in east Anchorage.

Considered by many to be one of the most dangerous highways in Alaska.

The now-serene site of the largest earthquake ever recorded in North America.

During the summer, surfers in Alaska take advantage of this inlet’s unusual water patterns.

Clean, cold drinking water flows from a nondescript pipe in a roadside rock face.

A quirky roadside sign was the subject of a years-long legal standoff over highway right-of-way clearances. 

The ruins of a town wiped out by the second-largest earthquake in recorded history.

This small city where almost everyone lives in the same building can only be reached via North America's longest tunnel.

The beginning of the historic Iditarod Trail connecting the Alaskan cities of Seward and Nome.

Buy your friend a drink or staple some cash to the wall for the next guy at the Salty Dawg Saloon.

A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.

While knives are the main feature in this store, visitors will also find dinosaur bones and meteorites.

An ode to "The Queen of Appalachia."

An impressive collection is dedicated to the legendary beast.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

A giant roadside black bird marks the location of this eclectic local mall.

From overly ambitious (and eventually abandoned) atomic dream to bustling office park.

A tribute to the Nirvana frontman hides beneath the bridge that was the singer's beloved hangout spot.

This grove of ghostly cedars was killed in 1700 by an enormous tsunami, felt from the United States to Japan.

Standing 191 feet tall and measuring more than 55 feet in circumference, this is the world's tallest spruce tree.

This large Sitka spruce that appears to be floating in mid-air, has defied logic for years.

This tree has witnessed nearly 1,000 years of history.

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.