Places HoboHillbilly Wants to Go

Near-constant high winds deform the trees on Spruce Knob, the highest point in West Virginia.

In 1869, Swiss and German immigrants settled in this small town in the mountains of West Virginia.

America's post-nuclear-attack chambers of Congress.

A cult archaeology conspiracy theory claims these West Virginia petroglyphs were written by Irish monks in Ogham.

Thousand-year-old trees tower within one of the world's only inland temperate rainforests.

Every summer, the Mendenhall River greenbelt comes alive with an explosion of magenta flowers.

This tiny square mile of Canadian sand was once considered the world's smallest desert.

A rare kind of blue bear can be found chiefly in the national park that shares their name.

The first Russian Orthodox church in North America and an Alaskan landmark.

Hauntingly beautiful totem poles left by the Haida.

The stunning remnants of this wreck emerge from an otherworldly backdrop of rainforests.

The remains of the first saint from Alaska in the Russian Orthodox Church.

One of Alaska's most significant ancient sites, spanning millennia and cultures, is right under the feet of some famously fat bears.

Massive mounds of golden sand look like a desert landscape randomly plopped in an Arctic forest.

The "Gateway to the Arctic" connects Barrow's indigenous population with the sea and its traditional industry: whaling.

This general store is a one-stop-shop for workers at the Prudhoe Bay oil field.

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

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

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

Considered by many to be one of the most dangerous highways in Alaska.

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

Historic medieval fortified city in southwest France.

Nine centuries-old fortresses guard the walls of this medieval Romanian city.

This elaborately decorated, fairytale-like Romanian royal palace is one of the most striking castles in Europe.