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

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

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

Siberian husky that delivered a life-saving antitoxin.

Mind-blowing carvings and fantasy ice scenes grace the largest year-round ice environment in the world.

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

A trading post in the North Pole where children send letters.

The collection includes seven one-of-a-kind automobiles, vintage fashion, and more.

This mile marker stands at the unofficial end of a highway built to defend the United States from a Japanese invasion during World War II.

This free series of exhibitions honors the fascinating history of the region.

A copy of the famous bus used during the filming of 'Into the Wild' is on display at an Alaska brewery.

This 47-foot chile pepper sculpture welcomes Scoville heat unit obsessed tourists to the Big Chile Inn.

A giant "X" symbolizes the blood spilled from the brutal Juárez drug wars.

A prison-like structure guards the remains of a notorious Old West outlaw.

The house's confection-like decorations are the result of one man's painstaking work over decades.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

Nature's biggest mammal swims in landlocked Oklahoma.

The fifth tallest statue in the United States is a shirtless monument to the oil worker.

Standing at 21-feet tall, this space cowboy adds to the legacy of Route 66's muffler men.

This 1930s-era Route 66 Tulsa landmark was moved, restored, and filled with neon.

A Route 66 filling station that was designed to resemble the Hagia Sophia, and is now the symbol of an arts district.

Natural catch-basin rocks covered in thousands of drawings spanning many millennia.

These massive mitts are made of 30 tons of devotional bronze.

A clear blue swimming hole with hidden caves, still unexplored.