Places positivelypossessed Wants to Go

A roadside attraction fit for a giant.

The large fjord lake is thought to be the home of "Ogopogo," a giant sea serpent.

Railways may have forged this quintet of lovely tunnels, but now they are open to hikers.

Mysterious wreckage of a small plane has been lodged in this tree since at least 1971.

Antiques shop filled with all manner of curious collectibles.

Two graffiti towers stand like ghosts of Vancouver's World War II-era defensive outpost.

A renegade art installation in a small Vancouver park is now officially sanctioned by the City Parks Department.

A high point in Vancouver kitsch.

Housing a morgue, rare and confiscated weapons, and autopsy remains, the Vancouver police museum displays the dark side of Canada.

Massive kielbasa stands 42 feet tall and weighs in at 12,000 pounds.

Museum of stuffed gophers set up in various scenes.

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

Breathtakingly blue walls shimmer inside the "Glacier Behind the Town."

The ruins of this Alaska gold mine form a gorgeous ghost town.

Thousand-year-old trees tower within one of the world's only inland temperate rainforests.

A tiny wilderness cemetery commemorates the deadliest episode of the Klondike Gold Rush.

A museum devoted entirely to hammers has more than 1,400 items on display dating back to the Romans.

This tiny square mile of Canadian sand was once considered the world's smallest desert.

This junkyard made over as a theme park is the "Most Alaskan place in Alaska."

This general store is a one-stop-shop for workers at the Prudhoe Bay oil field.

The northernmost truck stop in the United States.

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

Mind-blowing carvings and fantasy ice scenes grace the largest year-round ice environment in the world.

An abandoned aircraft sits submerged in a lake in the Alaska wilderness.