Places BorealFox Wants to Go

Visit a fourth-generation farm and museum dedicated to everyone's favorite fungi.

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

Tales of ghosts, cryptids, and true crime rise from the murky waters of the largest freshwater wetland in Massachusetts.

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

The world's largest floating loon bobs in the lake to kick off an annual festival.

This five-foot-tall bronze bird is a memorial to a species that was hunted out of existence.

The oldest city park in Walla Walla is home to hundreds of birds, from wood ducks to white peacocks.

Meet manatees face-to-face at this zoo for native species.

Oregon's only closed-basin hypersaline lake, an important stopover for migrating waterfowl, is in danger of drying up completely.

You don't have to visit the deep blue sea to see these majestic creatures swimming wild and free.

The largest single concentration of harmless garter snakes in the world is a writhing Canadian serpent orgy.

This Alaska library may be the only one in the country that allows you to check out pieces of taxidermy.

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

This gravelly, dangerous highway is the only road in the United States that leads to the Arctic Ocean.

The simple log cabin of a famed loner and naturalist stands preserved as a symbol of the ultimate DIY lifestyle.

The stickered marker pinpoints where the only maintained road in the United States crosses into the polar region.

The ruins of Theodore Roosevelt's beloved ranch stand in a forgotten corner of a national park named after him.

The world's longest known cave system.

The only road through the heart of Glacier National Park.

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

The northernmost truck stop in the United States.

The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.