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La font.

Barcelona, Spain

Font de Sant Just

This fountain was designed to honor the man who helped bring water to Barcelona.

Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau (Barcelona)

Barcelona, Spain

Sant Pau Recinte Modernista

The largest Art Nouveau complex in the world is a Barcelona hospital with a 600-year-long history.

Alluvial Decoder at Crabtree Creek

Raleigh, North Carolina

Alluvial Decoder at Crabtree Creek

A curious art piece along a lovely biking trail marks several historic floods via a series of colorful poles that represent floodwater heights.

The pork sandwich here is sweet and indulgent.

Clarksdale, Mississippi

Abe’s Bar-B-Q

Steps from the site where Robert Johnson purportedly sold his soul to the Devil, you'll find this century-old barbecue joint.

Fried catfish commands center stage on a plate with turnip greens, pinto peans, and cornbread.

Memphis, Tennessee

The Four Way

For more than 75 years, this living piece of history has been serving exceptional soul food.

Tangy and fragrant with hickory smoke, the pulled pork is outstanding.

Memphis, Tennessee

Payne’s Bar-B-Q

Line up for a hickory-smoked BBQ bologna sandwich at this family-run institution.

Hemmed-In-Hollow Falls

Compton, Arkansas

Hemmed-In-Hollow Falls

The highest waterfall between the Rockies and the Appalachian Mountains.

Cheeseburgers are the ultimate late-night feast.

Nashville, Tennessee

Dino's

East Nashville's oldest dive bar will bring you back to life with animal-style bar fare.

The Pasty Cline Crash Site Memorial

Camden, Tennessee

Patsy Cline Crash Site Memorial

An engraved boulder marks the spot where Patsy Cline's life ended in a plane crash.

Jerk chicken ranges from mild to "FIYAH."

Nashville, Tennessee

Jamaicaway Restaurant and Catering

Feast on Caribbean classics from curry goat to black cake.

A band at Robert's Western World.

Nashville, Tennessee

Robert's Western World

Fuel your honky-tonking with this venue's unbeatable “Recession Special.”

Aurora Ice Museum

Fairbanks, Alaska

Aurora Ice Museum

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

The Aurora Express Bed & Breakfast.
Permanently Closed

Fairbanks, Alaska

Aurora Express Bed & Breakfast

One woman's dream became a train hotel in her backyard.

The wood and tin portions of the dredge were consumed by the fire. Only the ghostly steel structure remains.

Fairbanks, Alaska

Chatanika Gold Dredge #3

A hulking remnant of Alaska's industrial gold mining boom in the 1920s.

Poker Flat Research Range

Fairbanks, Alaska

Poker Flat Research Range

Research missiles and rainbow auroras at the world's largest land-based rocket range.

Mount Denali

Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska

Denali

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

Fairbanks Antler Arch

Fairbanks, Alaska

Fairbanks Antler Arch

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

The monument.

Fairbanks, Alaska

Lend-Lease Monument

This super-sized statue is the only public memorial to the deal that ended America's neutrality during World War II.

"Unknown Family" by Malcolm Alexander (1986)

Fairbanks, Alaska

Golden Heart Plaza

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

Blue Babe

Fairbanks, Alaska

Blue Babe

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

Engineers Tradition Stone Plaque.

Fairbanks, Alaska

Engineers Tradition Stone

A sarcastic monument threatens to curse any "idiot" who dares remove it.

The sculpture.

Fairbanks, Alaska

'Polaris'

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

Milepost 1523 is near the Cushman Street Bridge.

Fairbanks, Alaska

Alaska Highway's Milepost 1523

This mile marker stands at the unofficial end of a highway built to defend the United States from a Japanese invasion during World War II.

Memphis Pyramid

Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis Pyramid

The 10th-tallest pyramid in the world, this former sports arena is now home to a massive Bass Pro Shops store.

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