Places SamWandersEarth Wants to Go

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

The first lookout in Yosemite.

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

A glimpse into the lives of the the Miwok and Paiute people in Yosemite National Park.

An icy behemoth that towers over you with a blue ice cave in the winter and a roaring creek in the summer.

The now-serene site of the largest earthquake ever recorded in North America.

This mile marker stands at the unofficial end of a highway built to defend the United States from a Japanese invasion during World War II.

This Alaska library may be the only one in the country that allows you to check out pieces of taxidermy.

One toy collector's legacy of hundreds of unique items includes the most diverse display of northern indigenous dolls.

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

A morbid gateway to an Alaska town prides itself on the hunting history it represents.

The sculpture's largest spire points directly toward the North Star.

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

A giant poultry statue immortalizes one of Alaska's more humorous town names.

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

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

A trading post in the North Pole where children send letters.

A rare kind of blue bear can be found chiefly in the national park that shares their name.

This frozen tunnel in central Alaska is both an engineering feat and a valuable climate classroom.

Gorgeous cave resemble a winter wonderland.

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

This whimsical stacked cabin looks like something out of a children's book.

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

Colorful boxes placed over the dead are left to rot and crumble.