Los Angeles, California
Hollywood Sign
Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.
Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Los Angeles, California
Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.
Borrego Springs, California
Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.
Mecca, California
The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.
Seattle, Washington
Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.
Seattle, Washington
From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.
Seattle, Washington
A beautiful final resting place for some of the noteworthy deceased.
Seattle, Washington
A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.
Watson Lake, Yukon
Roadside collection of 65,000 signs.
Juneau, Alaska
A rare chance to get up close and personal with a 13-mile ribbon of ice near downtown Juneau.
Carcross, Yukon
This tiny square mile of Canadian sand was once considered the world's smallest desert.
Skagway, Alaska
A historic freight system that found the true gold rush is in tourism.
Skagway, Alaska
A classic gold rush hotel can be expected to pick up some ghosts along the way, and the Golden North is no exception.
Homer, Alaska
Buy your friend a drink or staple some cash to the wall for the next guy at the Salty Dawg Saloon.
Whittier, Alaska
Running under an entire mountain, the longest highway tunnel in North America is kept fresh using portal fans and jet fans.
Whittier, Alaska
This WWII-era military installation once held an entire city within its walls - now, its walls are falling down.
Whittier, Alaska
The ruins of a town wiped out by the second-largest earthquake in recorded history.
Anchorage, Alaska
During the summer, surfers in Alaska take advantage of this inlet’s unusual water patterns.
Anchorage, Alaska
Clean, cold drinking water flows from a nondescript pipe in a roadside rock face.
Anchorage, Alaska
A high school astronomy enthusiast designed this model of our solar system to be traversed on foot.
Anchorage, Alaska
Colorful boxes placed over the dead are left to rot and crumble.
Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska
The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.
Kansas City, Missouri
The first car-centric shopping plaza in the U.S. brought a little bit of Spain to downtown Kansas City.
St. Louis, Missouri
What was meant to be a temporary exhibit is now a permanent fixture at the St. Louis Zoo filled with beautiful birds.
Kansas City, Missouri
Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.