Santa Cruz, California
Santa Cruz Surfing Museum
Housed in a memorial lighthouse, this museum relays the history of surfing, beginning with the antics of royal Hawaiian teenagers.
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Santa Cruz, California
Housed in a memorial lighthouse, this museum relays the history of surfing, beginning with the antics of royal Hawaiian teenagers.
Brattleboro, Vermont
Play everything you see at a museum dedicated to a town's historic organ industry.
Cape Elizabeth, Maine
Abandoned Italianate architecture on the coast of Maine.
Fairbanks, Alaska
11,500 year old little girl found buried in an ancient fire pit.
Fairbanks, Alaska
The sculpture's largest spire points directly toward the North Star.
Valdez, Alaska
Permanent exhibit reminds visitors of the Exxon Valdez.
North Pole, Alaska
A trading post in the North Pole where children send letters.
Fairbanks, Alaska
Mind-blowing carvings and fantasy ice scenes grace the largest year-round ice environment in the world.
Whittier, Alaska
The ruins of a town wiped out by the second-largest earthquake in recorded history.
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 small city where almost everyone lives in the same building can only be reached via North America's longest tunnel.
Whittier, Alaska
This WWII-era military installation once held an entire city within its walls - now, its walls are falling down.
Palmer, Alaska
This abandoned mine offers a glimpse at what life was like for those who came to Alaska seeking Gold Rush riches.
Palmer, Alaska
An Alaska livestock farm devotes itself to harvesting wool from creatures that once ran with mammoths and sabertooth tigers.
Anchorage, Alaska
During the summer, surfers in Alaska take advantage of this inlet’s unusual water patterns.
Anchorage, Alaska
While not recognized by Guinness, this chocolate waterfall is likely to be the world's largest.
Anchorage, Alaska
A high school astronomy enthusiast designed this model of our solar system to be traversed on foot.
Anchorage, Alaska
Considered by many to be one of the most dangerous highways in Alaska.
San Francisco, California
A historic hotel that made a cameo in Hitchcock's classic film has no intention of letting guests forget its fame.
Florence, Oregon
Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.
Clark County, Nevada
The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.
Flagstaff, Arizona
This historic national park is covered in the stunning ruins of red rock pueblos.
San Simeon, California
The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.
Flagstaff, Arizona
The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.