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

The only royal palace on U.S. soil has been a territorial capitol, a military headquarters, and a prison for a queen.

Memorial to the father of the Republic of China.

This Taiwanese promontory is covered in otherworldly hoodoo formations.

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

The largest collection of ornamental hair combs on the planet.

Open day and night, a church with three pews and Bibles.

This junkyard made over as a theme park is the "Most Alaskan place in Alaska."

Four-story concrete hotel never opened to customers.

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

A classic gold rush hotel can be expected to pick up some ghosts along the way, and the Golden North is no exception.

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

While many places make the claim, the Library of Congress says this restaurant is the birthplace of the hamburger.

The ruins of a cotton mill that was burned in the Civil War are still hidden in a Georgia forest.

A small metropolis of Pueblo cave dwellings have been carved right into the hillside of this national monument.

Industrial ruin decimated this tiny New England company town in a fashion no one saw coming… and even fewer remember today.

These etchings reveal the history of a long-gone quarantine site.

To avoid the demolition costs this abandoned drawbridge was simply left in the up position.

The largest of the Fuji Five Lakes is home to an impressive swan population—some real, some with paddles, and one with an observation deck.