Places stranger Wants to Go

An attractive alpine lake at 8,400 feet that is accessible via a paved road.

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

This ghostly Alaska village still clings to a steep cliffside despite having been abandoned for over 50 years.

When the big city meets the edge of the frontier, log skyscrapers are born.

The largest collection of ornamental hair combs on the planet.

The northernmost truck stop in the United States.

The oldest original lighthouse in Alaska that was born out of a tragic shipwreck.

Alaska Natives have lived on this tiny isolated island in the Bering Strait for over 5,000 years.

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

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

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

The eclectic observatory castle of a 19th-century astronomer and explorer.

The giant metal fruit was once the symbol of a large farm.

This Nevada lake holds its titular natural pyramid and, if the legends are true, a number of dangerous spirits.

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

Stepping inside this coffee shop is a journey through time.

The largest wooden building in the world now houses a fascinating collection of aircraft.

The Hopi-style structure was built by the man who discovered Desert Hot Springs' famous mineral water.

These lush groves of fan palms rise up like oases out of southern California's Colorado Desert.

Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.

The final resting place of the living embodiment of the famous Forest Service symbol.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.