Fairbanks, Alaska
Lend-Lease Monument
This super-sized statue is the only public memorial to the deal that ended America's neutrality during World War II.
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Fairbanks, Alaska
This super-sized statue is the only public memorial to the deal that ended America's neutrality during World War II.
Fairbanks, Alaska
A sarcastic monument threatens to curse any "idiot" who dares remove it.
Soldotna, Alaska
Open day and night, a church with three pews and Bibles.
Alaska
The stickered marker pinpoints where the only maintained road in the United States crosses into the polar region.
Eagle, Alaska
The northernmost international land border crossing in the United States.
Palmer, Alaska
An Alaska livestock farm devotes itself to harvesting wool from creatures that once ran with mammoths and sabertooth tigers.
Barrow, Alaska
The "Gateway to the Arctic" connects Barrow's indigenous population with the sea and its traditional industry: whaling.
North Pole, Alaska
An abandoned aircraft sits submerged in a lake in the Alaska wilderness.
Cantwell, Alaska
Four-story concrete hotel never opened to customers.
North Pole, Alaska
A trading post in the North Pole where children send letters.
Talkeetna, Alaska
This whimsical stacked cabin looks like something out of a children's book.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
A place to eat for on-the-run agents and espionage enthusiasts.
Chicken, Alaska
A giant poultry statue immortalizes one of Alaska's more humorous town names.
Minnesota
When waves crash onto this section of beach, the rocks sing a song.
García, Mexico
Inside this mountain lies several kilometers of breathtaking caves.
Athens, Wisconsin
The center of the only hemisphere that awards visitors with a commemorative coin.
Manitowish Waters, Wisconsin
A restaurant and lodge in northern Wisconsin which served as a clandestine hideout for John Dillinger and featured one of the most famous botched FBI raids in history.
Cloquet, Minnesota
The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.
Lake Itasca, Minnesota
At this Minnesota state park you can easily wade across the source of the mighty Mississippi.
Blanchard, North Dakota
This sky-high radio mast is formerly the tallest man-made structure in the world.
Madison, Wisconsin
A bronze plaque marks the site of the only show the "King of the Soul Singers" ever missed.
Duluth, Minnesota
This rare vessel mixed luxury with labor before being converted to a museum and sometimes haunted maze.
Fort Kent, Maine
A monument marks the beginning of the longest north-south road in the United States.
Hamilton, Ontario
With well over 130 falls and cascades to brag about, Hamilton, Ontario has earned its stripes as the waterfall capital of the world.