This museum celebrating the almighty dollar lets visitors literally stand in the shadow of a million bucks.

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

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

A trading post in the North Pole where children send letters.

A rare chance to get up close and personal with a 13-mile ribbon of ice near downtown Juneau.

A whale of a public art display towers atop Juneau's cruise ship dock.

A high school astronomy enthusiast designed this model of our solar system to be traversed on foot.

North America's first frozen mummified remains of an ice age steppe bison, the 36,000 year-old mummy named "Blue Babe."

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

Mind-blowing carvings and fantasy ice scenes grace the largest year-round ice environment in the world.

Its eclectic exhibits range from the world’s first motorcycle to Luke Skywalker’s Land Speeder.

This otherwise ordinary close on the Royal Mile constituted the end of the world for Edinburgh’s poorest residents.

Nestled amid the peaks and lochs of the Scottish Highlands, this inn and pub has played host to outlaws and ghosts.

Protecting the dead from opportunistic body snatchers.

Overlooked by many, the two famous Scottish warriors guard the main gate of Edinburgh Castle.

This historic pub has maintained much of its 1906 decor, including a small sequestered room for women, where orders were slipped through a tiny window.

A scattered trail of street art adds a pop of color to the city's stark structures.

Largest lake in Great Britain measured by surface area.

Near the former site of numerous witch burnings, this lavish Edinburgh mainstay pays homage to Scotland's brutal history.

The elaborate clockwork contraptions in this Scottish gallery create small worlds of whimsy and horror.

A 18th century graveyard and its astonishing cortege of macabre iconography.

"Respectful to the dead, safe and sanitary to the living, dedicated to the Genius of Memory..."

The house where the writer spent his formative years.

A hugely vast Irish landscape of barren rock that stretches for miles.