Whittier, Alaska
Portage Ghost Town
The ruins of a town wiped out by the second-largest earthquake in recorded history.
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Whittier, Alaska
The ruins of a town wiped out by the second-largest earthquake in recorded history.
Hyder, Alaska
The easternmost town in Alaska can only be accessed from Canada.
Alaska
The stickered marker pinpoints where the only maintained road in the United States crosses into the polar region.
Ketchikan, Alaska
This historic collection of Native Alaskan artifacts was resurrected through a partnership between the WPA and tribal artisans.
Whittier, Alaska
This small city where almost everyone lives in the same building can only be reached via North America's longest tunnel.
Fairbanks, Alaska
One woman's dream became a train hotel in her backyard.
Juneau, Alaska
A rare chance to get up close and personal with a 13-mile ribbon of ice near downtown Juneau.
Juneau, Alaska
Breathtakingly blue walls shimmer inside the "Glacier Behind the Town."
Fairbanks, Alaska
North America's first frozen mummified remains of an ice age steppe bison, the 36,000 year-old mummy named "Blue Babe."
King Salmon, Alaska
One of Alaska's most significant ancient sites, spanning millennia and cultures, is right under the feet of some famously fat bears.
Dandenong South, Australia
A roadside hotel that you can’t stop at.
Nashville, Tennessee
This award-winning men's bathroom was just too beautiful to not allow women to see.
Nashville, Tennessee
When Motown musicians came to Nashville in the 1960s they stayed at this historic record-pressing company because hotels wouldn't host them.
Nashville, Tennessee
This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.
Nashville, Tennessee
At 135 years old and counting, this historic print shop is heaven for poster nerds and music buffs.
Nashville, Tennessee
The alley connecting two of country music’s most historic venues has a rich history of its own.
College Park, Maryland
The world's oldest continuously operating airport was founded by the Wright Brothers.
Hiko, Nevada
Many believe these images represent interstellar lifeforms.
Ocotillo, California
A UFO scrapyard in the California desert.
Nye, Nevada
Potential high level nuclear waste storage site for the next 10,000 years and beyond.
Woolsey, Nevada
A surviving concrete arrow from a 1920s navigational network is preserved right off a modern freeway.
Derbent, Russia
An enormous Soviet aircraft, the only one of its kind, stands at the deserted shore of the Caspian Sea.
Key West, Florida
A historic presidential getaway on the continental United States' southernmost island.
Key West, Florida
The museum chronicling a treasure hunter's dream, fulfilled.