Places Unalaska Wants to Go

Beautiful mostly-abandoned town only accessible by sea-worthy boat or plane.

A floating McDonald's built for Expo '86 is now a derelict relic on Burrard Inlet.

This hauntingly stark structure is a relic of an industrial past.

A crumbling cliffside ruin hidden in the woods.

An abandoned logging settlement nestled in the woods near a popular ski town.

Hidden within the waterfront hills resides this dilapidated military stronghold.

This small beach park is littered with a collection of unique driftwood sculptures.

A monument stands at one of the starting lines of the Trans-Canada Highway, formerly the longest uninterrupted highway in the world.

Greenery cloaks this serene sculpture inspired by the famous Lost Gardens of Heligan.

This Italianate house was the childhood home of the prominent Canadian painter, Emily Carr.

An operating lighthouse from the 1860s.

A "Minnesota-style" pizza parlor in the Scandinavian heart of Seattle.

A colorful statue honoring the local salmon in glass and bronze.

This Puget Sound military post has a long, turbulent history as a gateway to the Pacific.

A rotting tree in the middle of Seattle doubles as an elaborately-controlled art piece.

This small island has a dark past as a colony for Chinese lepers and a dropoff point for bootleggers.

This 50-ton ship on Orcas Island has never seen the ocean.

Mysterious ancient petroglyphs carved on a glacial boulder at the tip of Bainbridge Island.

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

In the middle of the Alaskan wilderness, lies a train trestle to nowhere.

A quirky roadside sign was the subject of a years-long legal standoff over highway right-of-way clearances. 

The beginning of the historic Iditarod Trail connecting the Alaskan cities of Seward and Nome.

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

This Alaskan town appoints the general store's resident feline as honorary mayor.