Austin, Texas
Museum of the Weird
Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Austin, Texas
Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.
Spring Mills, Pennsylvania
Sail through this subterranean show cave that is home to a legend that would go on to name nearly everything around it.
Woodward, Pennsylvania
Explore a subterranean wonderland with Pennsylvania’s largest stalagmite.
Hershey, Pennsylvania
Themed gardens, a conservatory, and a rose named for Milton Hershey, all overlooking Hersheypark.
Antarctica
Naked scientists race around the pole in the frigid cold to try to join Antarctica's exclusive 300 Club.
McMurdo Station, Antarctica
The place of worship erected not once, but three times in one of the most desolate places on Earth.
McMurdo Station, Antarctica
Antarctica's bustling metropolis, originally established by Richard E. Byrd.
Cambridge, England
An extraordinary library and archive dedicated to the history of the Arctic and Antarctic poles.
London, England
The famous polar explorer stands outside the Royal Geographical Society's headquarters.
Brunswick, Maine
This museum on a college campus pays tribute to the Arctic and to two explorer alumni.
Grytviken, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
Final resting place of Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton.
Antarctica
The bodies of some early polar pioneers are still buried beneath the harsh snows of the Antarctic.
Antarctica
Nimrod Polar Expedition base, and home to hundred-year-old frozen whisky.
McMurdo Station, Antarctica
A wooden hut from the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.
Oslo, Norway
Housing the famous Norwegian ice-defying 19th century polar exploration ship.
Antarctica
Fire meets ice at the southernmost volcano on Earth.
Rovaniemi, Finland
Roughly 17 million letters to Santa have found their way to this Arctic Circle post office.
Prescott, Arizona
This Prescott institution is widely considered the oldest bar in Arizona.
Delta Junction, Alaska
An icy behemoth that towers over you with a blue ice cave in the winter and a roaring creek in the summer.
Lake City, Colorado
These towering cliffs crystalize each winter, forming sheer walls of ice that are open for climbing.
Tulelake, California
Each winter this underground cave forms a dazzling ice palace.
Newfoundland and Labrador
Hundreds of enormous icebergs drift through this waterway every year.
Fairbanks, Alaska
This frozen tunnel in central Alaska is both an engineering feat and a valuable climate classroom.
Seven Valleys, Pennsylvania
This is the second-oldest rail tunnel in the United States that is still in use today.