A hulking remnant of Alaska's industrial gold mining boom in the 1920s.

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

Originally a brothel during the Klondike Gold Rush, this bar once used dolls to denote when ladies were working.

An Alaska livestock farm devotes itself to harvesting wool from creatures that once ran with mammoths and sabertooth tigers.

This historic collection of Native Alaskan artifacts was resurrected through a partnership between the WPA and tribal artisans.

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

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

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

Glass-walled, mid-century modern showroom for cars, still in operation.

The colonial home of Paul Revere during the American Revolution.

This massive redwood tree has a drive-thru tunnel carved out of its trunk.

This larger-than-life portrait in Nevada's silver boomtown is decorated with over 3,000 silver dollars.

Alongside a scenic road are the remains of crumbling World War II gun emplacement.

On the waterfront of Sydney, Nova Scotia, a 60-ft. fiddle greets incoming ships.

This Canadian monument to the man who invented the telephone allows visitors to get up close and personal with the artifacts of his life.

A walk along this white sand beach creates a symphony.

An eerie natural formation that looks right back at you.

Boats and fish both find their way through this massive hydroelectric structure.

On the side of Highway 50 East, between Carson City and Dayton, Nevada, sits a giant metal spider made from a vintage Volkswagen Beetle.

The rocks exposed at Valley of Fire State Park also occur in a much less known but equally spectacular area a few miles to the southwest.

This vast and otherworldly landscape is one of the largest dune complexes in North America.

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

A giant poultry statue immortalizes one of Alaska's more humorous town names.

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