Juneau, Alaska
Mendenhall Glacier
A rare chance to get up close and personal with a 13-mile ribbon of ice near downtown Juneau.
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Juneau, Alaska
A rare chance to get up close and personal with a 13-mile ribbon of ice near downtown Juneau.
Skagway, Alaska
A classic gold rush hotel can be expected to pick up some ghosts along the way, and the Golden North is no exception.
Whitehorse, Yukon
This decommissioned DC-3 now forever points into the oncoming wind.
Homer, Alaska
Buy your friend a drink or staple some cash to the wall for the next guy at the Salty Dawg Saloon.
Dawson City, Yukon
A famed drink seasoned with an amputated toe, now on its tenth digit.
Dawson City, Yukon
A skeletal collection of former nautical mainstays.
Whittier, Alaska
Running under an entire mountain, the longest highway tunnel in North America is kept fresh using portal fans and jet fans.
Whittier, Alaska
This WWII-era military installation once held an entire city within its walls - now, its walls are falling down.
Valdez, Alaska
Permanent exhibit reminds visitors of the Exxon Valdez.
Anchorage, Alaska
Colorful boxes placed over the dead are left to rot and crumble.
North Pole, Alaska
A trading post in the North Pole where children send letters.
Fairbanks, Alaska
This super-sized statue is the only public memorial to the deal that ended America's neutrality during World War II.
Cantwell, Alaska
Four-story concrete hotel never opened to customers.
Chitina, Alaska
The ghostly remains of what was once the world's richest copper mine.
Talkeetna, Alaska
This whimsical stacked cabin looks like something out of a children's book.
Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska
The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.
Chicago, Illinois
One of the largest pieces of scientific equipment ever carried on a NASA space shuttle sits in a Chicago alley.
Chicago, Illinois
An actual 1957 Cadillac De Ville, encased in 15 cubic yards of concrete.
Järva-Jaani, Estonia
Rusted cars, trucks, and buses form a fascinating collection of Soviet-era machinery.
's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
This neighborhood of futuristic ball houses looks like an alien settlement in a science fiction film.
Danvers, Massachusetts
This historic graveyard monument is dedicated to a tragic victim of witch trial hysteria.
Maple City, Michigan
Hidden beneath the waters of Lake Michigan rests a perfectly intact ship from the early 1900s.
Danvers, Massachusetts
Located just behind a quiet residential neighborhood, this is ground zero for the Salem witchcraft hysteria of 1692.
Entebbe, Uganda
An aeronautical-themed resort forged around rusty relics from the golden age of air travel.