The ruins of a town wiped out by the second-largest earthquake in recorded history.

Clean, cold drinking water flows from a nondescript pipe in a roadside rock face.

A suburban street in Anchorage doubles as a runway, and each home has its own airplane hangar.

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

A high school astronomy enthusiast designed this model of our solar system to be traversed on foot.

Considered by many to be one of the most dangerous highways in Alaska.

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

Every drop of water in this 27-mile long reservoir was pumped up from the Columbia River using power from Grand Coulee Dam.

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

Pay homage to a preeminent matriarch, and the native Dena’ina people, at this sculpture installation in Anchorage.

This popular fishing spot at the outflow of a 4.5-mile long hydroelectric tunnel sports a jetty literally made out of classic cars.

Siberian husky that delivered a life-saving antitoxin.

The only house built with a turret, crenellations, and a moat in Palmer, Alaska.

An Alaska livestock farm devotes itself to harvesting wool from creatures that once ran with mammoths and sabertooth tigers.

An underground network of massive stone arches and their skylit vaults support ruins of portico structures above.

This half-forgotten fortress was constructed by the Ottoman conqueror of Constantinople.

The ancient latrines of the Greeks, in all their public glory.

No one is sure if the world's fourth-largest diamond had been found in a rubbish heap or was pawned by Napoleon's mom.

An Art Nouveau gem hides beneath the layers of city grime obscuring this once-magnificent building.

Roman ruins top white travertine terraces formed by ancient hot springs.

This crucial gathering spot along the "hippie trail" still displays old notes between traveling beatniks and backpackers.

A fountain standing as a testament to a doomed alliance.

A sixth-century Byzantine cistern hidden below a modern carpet store.

A tiny park in the middle of some big power politics.