An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

The site of a classic series of Laurel and Hardy pratfalls.

This centerpiece of the Hollywood & Highland shopping center is a recreation of a long-lost movie set.

The blinking light atop the iconic landmark has been sending secret messages for decades.

Race through the maze, get your name on the sign.

A glass display case holds the document that ended the Second World War—which one person signed on the wrong line.

A journey begins with a single step, and for many, the road-trip of a lifetime started at this Chicago intersection.

The rodent-shaped sidewalk imprint that earned worldwide media attention.

This landmark of the Chicago silent film industry may not be in the picture business anymore but it still stands proudly.

A strange and haunting monument of unknown origin in the historic Graceland Cemetery.

Clean, cold drinking water flows from a nondescript pipe in a roadside rock face.

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

This super-sized statue is the only public memorial to the deal that ended America's neutrality during World War II.

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

A suburban street in Anchorage doubles as a runway, and each home has its own airplane hangar.

Siberian husky that delivered a life-saving antitoxin.

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

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

The ruins of a town wiped out by the second-largest earthquake in recorded history.

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

This small city where almost everyone lives in the same building can only be reached via North America's longest tunnel.

A rare chance to get up close and personal with a 13-mile ribbon of ice near downtown Juneau.

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

One of the largest pieces of scientific equipment ever carried on a NASA space shuttle sits in a Chicago alley.