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

Permanent exhibit reminds visitors of the Exxon Valdez.

Four-story concrete hotel never opened to customers.

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

Pay homage to a preeminent matriarch, and the native Dena’ina people, at this sculpture installation in Anchorage.

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

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

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

Open day and night, a church with three pews and Bibles.

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

It's just another skyscraper, but it's shaped like '90s cell phone.

A beautiful deserted greenhouse in the middle of a park.

Buying your medicine at this particular pharmacy is like taking a trip back in time.

Pivotal home of Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda.

A tower devoted to — and modeled after — the Divine Comedy.

You have to know where to look in this rather ordinary-looking square to find hints of its past as a dissidents' cemetery.

A pocket of serenity in hectic Buenos Aires, complete with a peaceful courtyard and massive library.

A series of waterfalls so massive they straddle the border of Argentina and Brazil.

An underexplored, 130-foot tropical waterfall that you will have all to yourself.

An international border crossing near the famous Iguazú Falls where bargain hunters and curious tourists stream between Brazil and Paraguay.

As one of the world's largest hydroelectric dams this plant took two countries to get built.

This beautiful example of neoclassical architecture is one of Uruguay's most treasured cultural gems.

Museum precariously perched on a massive yellow pillar.

Solitary monument dedicated to the beauty of nature.