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Toad River, British Columbia
Alaska Highway Hat Collection
At a lodge and RV park is a collection of headwear that comes in at more than 11,300 and counting.
58.8476, -125.2328
Fort Nelson, British Columbia
Fort Nelson Heritage Museum
Home to vintage vehicles and local artifacts, this museum also houses a rare taxidermy specimen.
58.8044, -122.7158
Eagle, Alaska
Poker Creek
The northernmost international land border crossing in the United States.
64.0857, -141.0014
Homer, Alaska
Salty Dawg Saloon
Buy your friend a drink or staple some cash to the wall for the next guy at the Salty Dawg Saloon.
59.6064, -151.4339
Whittier, Alaska
Whittier, Alaska
This small city where almost everyone lives in the same building can only be reached via North America's longest tunnel.
60.7731, -148.6839
Whittier, Alaska
Portage Ghost Town
The ruins of a town wiped out by the second-largest earthquake in recorded history.
60.8315, -148.9855
Chicken, Alaska
Chicken of Chicken, Alaska
A giant poultry statue immortalizes one of Alaska's more humorous town names.
64.0706, -141.9412
Watson Lake, Yukon
Watson Lake Sign Post Forest
Roadside collection of 65,000 signs.
60.0654, -128.7031
Improvement District No. 9, Alberta
Banff Wildlife Crossings
Though many were skeptical at first, these animal-specific routes across the Trans-Canada Highway have been a major conservation success.
51.1611, -115.7146
Eldon, Alberta
Eisenhower Tower
Canada’s surprisingly controversial monument to Dwight Eisenhower.
51.3517, -115.9642
Field, British Columbia
Yoho National Park
Fossils, railroads, and waterfalls!
51.3956, -116.4865
West Glacier, Montana
Ptarmigan Tunnel
This angular Dwarven tunnel cuts through a mountainside in Glacier National Park.
48.7596, -113.7870
West Glacier, Montana
Going-to-the-Sun Road
The only road through the heart of Glacier National Park.
48.6950, -113.8169
Devils Tower, Wyoming
Devils Tower
The first declared National Monument in the United States.
44.5904, -104.7147
Spearfish, South Dakota
Fish Car No. 3
This vintage train once gave new meaning to “swimming upstream.”
44.4808, -103.8609
Deadwood, South Dakota
Mt. Moriah Cemetery
A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.
44.3753, -103.7265
Rapid City, South Dakota
Cosmos Mystery Area
A place where the laws of nature seem to have gone completely berserk... but of course haven't.
43.9232, -103.4204
Hot Springs, South Dakota
Mammoth Site
This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.
43.4248, -103.4833
Custer, South Dakota
Crazy Horse Memorial
The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.
43.8368, -103.6244
Keystone, South Dakota
Black Elk Peak
The highest point in South Dakota contains the ashes of Valentine McGillycuudy, the "Holy White Man."
43.8661, -103.5323
Keystone, South Dakota
Hall of Records in Mount Rushmore
Hidden behind Lincoln's head is a chamber containing enamel plates documenting American history, sealed in a teakwood box in a titanium vault.
43.8791, -103.4591
Wall, South Dakota
Wall Drug
The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.
43.9933, -102.2418
Tombstone, Arizona
Boothill Graveyard
A wild west cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, provides a window into the Old West.
31.7199, -110.0702
Tombstone, Arizona
The Bird Cage Theater
An old saloon in the West filled with history, and according to some, a few dozen ghosts.
31.7118, -110.0653
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