Fairbanks, Alaska
Haul Road (Dalton Highway)
This gravelly, dangerous highway is the only road in the United States that leads to the Arctic Ocean.
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Fairbanks, Alaska
This gravelly, dangerous highway is the only road in the United States that leads to the Arctic Ocean.
Talkeetna, Alaska
This Alaskan town appoints the general store's resident feline as honorary mayor.
Palmer, Alaska
This abandoned mine offers a glimpse at what life was like for those who came to Alaska seeking Gold Rush riches.
Nome, Alaska
This ghostly Alaska village still clings to a steep cliffside despite having been abandoned for over 50 years.
Diomede, Alaska
Alaska Natives have lived on this tiny isolated island in the Bering Strait for over 5,000 years.
Russia
Two islands just 4 km apart separated by an International Border and Date Line.
Northwest Arctic, Alaska
Massive mounds of golden sand look like a desert landscape randomly plopped in an Arctic forest.
Inuvik Region, Northwest Territories
Natural earth mounds formed in the far north.
Denmark / Canada
A long-disputed island that Denmark and Canada claim by periodically alternating flags and bottles of liquor.
Greenland
This remote research station sits amid the second-largest ice sheet on the planet.
Nunavut
Earth's greatest purely vertical drop at 4,101 feet.
Hirosaki, Japan
A mountain demon once helped a local villager construct a canal, after which he sat on this oak tree to rest.
Onekotan Island, Russia
A remote and picturesque volcano nestled inside another volcano.
Aleutians West, Alaska
The site of one of Japan's very few American occupations during World War II still holds the relics of a roundly disastrous campaign.
Adak, Alaska
America's smallest "national forest" has only 33 trees.
Nairobi, Kenya
This bullet spent 34 years lodged in the chest of Waruhiu Itote, a Mau Mau guerrilla fighter who resisted British colonial rule in the 1950s.
North Bimini Island, Bahamas
An underwater road considered a possible Atlantis location.
Nanwei, Micronesia
The ruins of an ancient island city built atop a coral reef in the South Pacific are spectacular and strange enough to have inspired H.P. Lovecraft.
Oka, Guam
The forgotten site of Guam’s first civilian hospital, where crumbling concrete foundations overlook the sea.
Verona, Wisconsin
Probably the only remaining trace of a leprosy house in Wisconsin, reflecting a time when leprosy was uncurable and sufferers were isolated.
Ishinomaki, Japan
A school destroyed by fire and tsunami simultaneously is preserved as a memorial.
Hong Kong
Beautiful Romanesque arches in a recently rediscovered century old underground reservoir.
Hong Kong
One of the Hakka "ghost villages" of Plover Cove famed for its haunted locked compass legend.
Nassau, Bahamas
The world’s largest underwater sculpture is found just off the coast of Nassau.