A smoke stack so large, the Washington Monument could fit inside!

New fungal and bacterial species call this deadly lake home.

High in the Rockies the third largest statue in the U.S. opens her welcoming arms, and lights up the night sky.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

The oldest museum in Russia is home to a fascinating collection of nearly two million anthropological artifacts and anatomical curiosities.

World's largest bell sits on the grounds of the Kremlin in Moscow.

Moscow's imposing monument to the Space Age.

It took over half a century but a Russian monument to a famous and tragic space pup finally stands in Moscow.

Museum celebrating the achievements of the Soviet space program.

This building holds the embalmed remains of the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution.

Immortal combat in a Moscow museum.

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

A famed drink seasoned with an amputated toe, now on its tenth digit.

This small city where almost everyone lives in the same building can only be reached via North America's longest tunnel.

This WWII-era military installation once held an entire city within its walls - now, its walls are falling down.

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

An Alaska livestock farm devotes itself to harvesting wool from creatures that once ran with mammoths and sabertooth tigers.

This whimsical stacked cabin looks like something out of a children's book.

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

This frozen tunnel in central Alaska is both an engineering feat and a valuable climate classroom.

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

A morbid gateway to an Alaska town prides itself on the hunting history it represents.

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