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

The stickered marker pinpoints where the only maintained road in the United States crosses into the polar region.

A trading post in the North Pole where children send letters.

The ghostly remains of what was once the world's richest copper mine.

The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.

Some of the best pastries in "the Czech heritage capital of Texas" come from a gas station off I-35.

The saga of the massive nut begins and ends in Texas.

The upstairs reading room is packed with millions of rare books, literary manuscripts, and historical treasures.

This simple frog painting created by musician Daniel Johnston embodies the spirit of Austin.

The peaceful space is adorned by paintings by the famed abstract artist Mark Rothko.

Steep canyon walls hide a forested oasis in the West Texas desert.

Over 100 million years ago, beach-bound dinosaurs left permanent marks on San Antonio's landscape.

Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.

Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

An unknown Hall of Fame in Jackson, Tennessee.

Before TV meteorologists, there were weather kiosks. This may be the last one in the United States.

An ode to "The Queen of Appalachia."

This building contains handprints that are well over a century old.

A 70-foot replica of the famed Eiffel Tower.

While knives are the main feature in this store, visitors will also find dinosaur bones and meteorites.

This Tennessee museum is dedicated to a tragic railroad hero who inspired the famous ballad that bears his name.

Once decrepit and slated for demolition, now one of the longest pedestrian bridges in the world.