One of two side-by-side totem pole parks dedicated to educating visitors on Tlingit history and culture.

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

Upside-down trees serve as natural flower pots in this hanging garden of Alaska.

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

This shrine to the patron saint of Alaska sits on a small tidal island and was built from the land’s own beach stones.

At 238 feet above the bottom of a gorge this span is known as the biggest thrill on the road to McCarthy.

The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.

North America's first frozen mummified remains of an ice age steppe bison, the 36,000 year-old mummy named "Blue Babe."

The "Gateway to the Arctic" connects Barrow's indigenous population with the sea and its traditional industry: whaling.

A classic gold rush hotel can be expected to pick up some ghosts along the way, and the Golden North is no exception.

The facade of this relic from the Klondike gold rush is decorated with over 8,800 pieces of driftwood.

A historic freight system that found the true gold rush is in tourism.

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

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

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

Thousands of turbines whir at the origin of North American wind power.

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

These millipedes glow not out of attraction, but as a not-too-subtle warning.

A water tower shaped like a giant coffee pot looms over a small Swedish village in Central California.

A towering bronze statue memorializes the founding father of postwar American conservatism.

A geological mystery on Camelback Mountain.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).