The world's largest dead polar bear, immortalized by taxidermy and Hunter S. Thompson.

This former mining railroad is one of the best-preserved short lines in North America.

The most southern point you can drive to in the Western Hemisphere.

This sculpture pays homage to sailors that perished attempting to round Cape Horn.

An abandoned suspension bridge on the Falkland Islands is crumbling into the water.

This remote stretch of sand is a penguin lover's paradise.

Commemorating the lives of a renowned humorist and a famed aviator who died in a plane crash in northern Alaska.

This angular Dwarven tunnel cuts through a mountainside in Glacier National Park.

A colossal concrete penguin announces this Montana town as the coldest spot in America. But is it really?

One of America's largest retail chains got its start in one of its most remote rural destinations.

This giant mimetic milk bottle has encouraged Route 66 travelers to choose dairy since 1948.

A rock that was too big to move, so the town just paved around it.

A Google software engineer's Easter egg led to what may be the world's most unusual saved screenshot.

A volcanic core jutting above the plain between the Snake and Boise Rivers, a marker identifies the reference point for all U.S. Government Surveys in Idaho.

A crew of die-hard train buffs spent decades turning a defunct stretch of railway in Oklahoma City into a museum now home to over 50 antique and restored trains.

The arch marks the beginning of the road for northbound travelers.

Stand at the point where the two mightiest rivers in the United States converge.

A rare underwater observatory in the Caribbean that provides breathtaking views of vibrantly colored aquatic life.

Ride on a fully-restored Nike nuclear-tipped missile elevator from the Cold War.

A model train wonderland hidden beneath Gare de l'Est station.

Named for a prominent scout and explorer, this Wyoming state park encompasses a replica of an 1840s trading post, a 19th-century Army outpost, and early 20th-century automobile lodgings.

The train collection of an eccentric New England seafood mogul is now a National Historical Site.

An excursion train traverses a picturesque red-rock canyon along the Verde River.

An iron monument on the 120th meridian as surveyed, one of only four marking the boundary between Nevada and California north of Lake Tahoe.