Places willard4848 Wants to Go

During the summer, surfers in Alaska take advantage of this inlet’s unusual water patterns.

This WWII-era military installation once held an entire city within its walls - now, its walls are falling down.

This small city where almost everyone lives in the same building can only be reached via North America's longest tunnel.

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

Permanent exhibit reminds visitors of the Exxon Valdez.

A small maritime town's own way of memorializing the local lives spent at sea.

A phone booth crammed with books marks the path to a house-turned-bookstore in Alaska.

In 1912, this idyllic Alaska landscape was blown apart in the largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century.

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

Massive mounds of golden sand look like a desert landscape randomly plopped in an Arctic forest.

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

America's smallest "national forest" has only 33 trees.

With a floor made of thick glass, this observation deck offers a full view of Sunwapta Valley's mountains and rivers.

Every fall this lake mysteriously drains, like a bathtub with the plug pulled out.

Alberta's Pipestone Creek Bonebed is one of the densest fossil sites in the world. This nearby museum showcases some of the best finds from its "river of death."

Roadside collection of 65,000 signs.

This Canadian road's nickname stuck so hard the city had to keep it.

The world's largest dark sky preserve is a Canadian park established to preserve the country’s wood bison population.

The half-mile long structure is so impressive, it even shows up on satellite images.

Ice roads, deep holes and 3,500 pounds of diamonds.

Two provinces and two territories touch borders deep in the middle of the wilderness.

This former outpost was designed to protect the lucrative fur trade of the 18th century.

A crash site in the heart of polar bear territory has become a beloved local landmark.

The rusting hulk of a 250-foot-long merchant vessel remains where she grounded on the shore of Hudson Bay.