A historic freight system that found the true gold rush is in tourism.

Originally a brothel during the Klondike Gold Rush, this bar once used dolls to denote when ladies were working.

Home to a full cast of the largest woolly mammoth ever recovered in North America. 

When the big city meets the edge of the frontier, log skyscrapers are born.

A charming museum of natural history featuring dioramas and exhibits made entirely by college students.

East meets West in this Japanese-style garden featuring plants native to Maine’s Mount Desert Island.

Learn about the history and hopeful future of Maine’s nesting birds at this interactive Audubon facility.

This tiny patch of arid sand sits in one of the greenest states in the United States.

The world's largest rotating world.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

These ancient ritual mounds are our best window into the culture of the ancient Mississippians.

This abstract roadside poultry was saved from demolition by outraged drivers and pilots.

Profile of a sleeping person four kilometers long in 250-meter-high cliffs.

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

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

The northernmost truck stop in the United States.

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

In the middle of the Alaskan wilderness, lies a train trestle to nowhere.

At 238 feet above the bottom of a gorge this span is known as the biggest thrill on the road to McCarthy.

The ghostly remains of what was once the world's richest copper mine.

Permanent exhibit reminds visitors of the Exxon Valdez.

During the summer, surfers in Alaska take advantage of this inlet’s unusual water patterns.

The now-serene site of the largest earthquake ever recorded in North America.

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