No Gordon Lightfoot song, only a barebones monument to greed.

The residents at this Yellowstone wildlife park will certify your cooler as "bear-proof."

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

The stickered marker pinpoints where the only maintained road in the United States crosses into the polar region.

This gravelly, dangerous highway is the only road in the United States that leads to the Arctic Ocean.

Inside this striking glass building, visitors can see thousands of dinosaur fossils in the positions that nature deposited them more than 150 million years ago.

The highest paved road in North America winds its way up Mount Blue Sky in Colorado to an altitude of 14,130 feet above sea level.

Overlooking the Colorado Convention Center is this giant sculpture made from thousands of triangles.

This historic observatory contains the world's oldest refracting lens telescope.

The bones of this aquatic dinosaur turned to opal over the centuries and the beast's remains were almost sold as jewelry.

A rare specimen of an iconic extinct animal in downtown Sydney.

Enjoy coffee and cake while viewing antique medical equipment at this unique cafe.

Home to some of the world’s darkest skies, this project blends ancient Māori culture with world-class astro tourism.

A perfect turquoise lake colored with glacier dust.

A solitary tree has grown up all alone on Lake Wānaka, backdropped by the beautiful Southern Alps.

Scientists use one of the saltiest bodies of water on Earth as a terrestrial base for studying water on Mars.

Fire meets ice at the southernmost volcano on Earth.

This pier made of ice and constructed over the Antarctic winter is used when the resupply cargo ships arrive in summer.

On a desolate hill overlooking McMurdo Station, a statue of the Virgin Mary stands inside a curved iron frame.

Quite possibly the most isolated bus stop on Earth.

Fossilized sea bottom and lime quarry.

There must be a pun in this haystack somewhere...

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

These unusual rooms on wheels are holdovers from the 1960s.