Places Mockingbird Wants to Go

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

Siberian husky that delivered a life-saving antitoxin.

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

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

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

See a full-scale whale skeleton and experience the captivating culture of Alaska’s Native people at this heritage center in east Anchorage.

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

A secret fresh water spring for animals and humans alike hidden along the most famous road in the United States.

This once-booming Gold Rush town is now home to a herd of feral donkeys.

Semi-recognized center of the world, with many oddities.

These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.

Decades' worth of lost and forgotten objects make up the collection of this tantalizingly odd little museum.

Improbably, the largest wildlife refuge in the conterminous 48 states sits just northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada.

Pleistocene megafauna fossils are the subject of Nevada's newest state park at the northern edge of the Las Vegas metropolitan area.

Happy harbor seals frolic and snooze on this warm, sandy stretch of coast.

A UFO scrapyard in the California desert.

A wild west cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, provides a window into the Old West.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

Here lies Lilly E. Gray, an alleged "victim of the beast," but the reason long remained a mystery.

Artist Jack Pierson made this surreal sculpture in honor of Wonder Valley, a countercultural community on edge of civilization.

A giant desert bird that once swung music fans at Coachella now has a home in a nearby traffic circle.

A giant knight, sex education, date shakes, and Jesus coexist happily in this Coachella Valley desert oasis.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

These lush groves of fan palms rise up like oases out of southern California's Colorado Desert.