This popular fishing spot at the outflow of a 4.5-mile long hydroelectric tunnel sports a jetty literally made out of classic cars.

A suburban street in Anchorage doubles as a runway, and each home has its own airplane hangar.

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

Colorful boxes placed over the dead are left to rot and crumble.

Internationally recognized group that works to protect the wolf and educate the public about its plight.

Siberian husky that delivered a life-saving antitoxin.

This Hungarian stilt village is built in a lake that never freezes over due to the power plant that that uses it as a cooling pond.

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

The only house built with a turret, crenellations, and a moat in Palmer, Alaska.

This Alaska library may be the only one in the country that allows you to check out pieces of taxidermy.

The ruins of an important pilgrimage destination for worshippers of a Maya fertility goddess.

At more than 5,000 years old, these structures are among the oldest free-standing stone buildings in the world.

These medieval funerary monuments are now home to a colony of critically endangered vultures.

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.

An ancient octagonal weather station named for the eight Greek gods of wind.

This small 16th-century church in Athens is almost entirely surrounded by a modern building.

The ruined doorway is a portal to the building's turbulent and torturous past.

Legend says this sacred tree was a gift from goddess Athena.

This once architecturally advanced housing complex is now a haven for squatters that still bears the scars of war.

According to legend, this ancient column contains healing properties.

This Ottoman-era church is hidden amid a busy tourist area.

A preserved portion of an ancient Athens barrier is displayed in a hotel basement.

This mystical orb covered in strange symbols is thought to have been used in ancient Greek magical rituals.

The Cycladic architecture makes this Athens neighborhood feel like an island paradise hidden in the shadow of the Acropolis.