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While not recognized by Guinness, this chocolate waterfall is likely to be the world's largest.

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

This abandoned mine offers a glimpse at what life was like for those who came to Alaska seeking Gold Rush riches.

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

This Alaskan town appoints the general store's resident feline as honorary mayor.

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

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.

A famed drink seasoned with an amputated toe, now on its tenth digit.

A lasting testament to the Klondike Gold Rush.

A skeletal collection of former nautical mainstays.

Few other hotels can rival the grandeur of the Castle in the Rockies.

The natural hot spring that was integral to the creation of Canada's first national park.

Though many were skeptical at first, these animal-specific routes across the Trans-Canada Highway have been a major conservation success.

At a lodge and RV park is a collection of headwear that comes in at more than 11,300 and counting.

This decommissioned DC-3 now forever points into the oncoming wind.

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.

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

The picturesque remains of an abandoned silver mine slope down to Tagish Lake in the Yukon.

A 30-mile-long glacially-carved canyon leads to a massive pair of glaciers.

A tiny wilderness cemetery commemorates the deadliest episode of the Klondike Gold Rush.

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.

Upside-down trees serve as natural flower pots in this hanging garden of Alaska.