100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.

This deconsecrated church has seen many uses, from a tobacco storehouse to a cinema.

Marta Becket's hand-painted theater in the desert.

This crumbling Death Valley mining complex was known for its use of giant, 20-mule team wagons.

The arch marks the beginning of the road for northbound travelers.

Roadside collection of 65,000 signs.

Once the center of Gold Rush mania, now the starting point for the Yukon Quest sled dog race.

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

When the big city meets the edge of the frontier, log skyscrapers are born.

A classic gold rush hotel can be expected to pick up some ghosts along the way, and the Golden North is no exception.

A museum devoted entirely to hammers has more than 1,400 items on display dating back to the Romans.

One of the most unusual geological features, recognizable from a dozen hit movies.

This unique graffiti art from the 1940s has become a staple of this local landscape in the remote California desert.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

Salt is slowly eating away this abandoned saltworks town in the desert.

A copy of the famous bus used during the filming of 'Into the Wild' is on display at an Alaska brewery.

The ghostly remains of what was once the world's richest copper mine.

The facade of this relic from the Klondike gold rush is decorated with over 8,800 pieces of driftwood.

Originally a brothel during the Klondike Gold Rush, this bar once used dolls to denote when ladies were working.

A monument commemorating the role of Alaska's native Tlingit guides in the Klondike Gold Rush.

This isolated outpost was once the only place to cross the Colorado River for hundreds of miles.

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