One woman's dream became a train hotel in her backyard.

Colorful boxes placed over the dead are left to rot and crumble.

A rare chance to get up close and personal with a 13-mile ribbon of ice near downtown Juneau.

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

This frozen tunnel in central Alaska is both an engineering feat and a valuable climate classroom.

This whimsical stacked cabin looks like something out of a children's book.

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

Mind-blowing carvings and fantasy ice scenes grace the largest year-round ice environment in the world.

A wonderful display of arts and crafts handmade by local artisans in the Southern Appalachians.

This narrow coastline trail through the dense Kauai wilderness is among the most beautiful and dangerous in the world.

A once-glowing grotto at the bottom of Waikapalae Wet Cave.

Submerged lava formations create incredible waterworks.

A prehistoric landscape hidden in the cliffs of Maha'ulepu.

A replica of the decorated wooden pillars Viking sailors threw overboard when finding new places to establish a settlement.

This excellent museum recreates the boom days of the herring rush in the "Atlantic Klondike."

Discover the magic in the mundane in Iceland's Museum of Everyday Life.

Inside this Icelandic greenhouse, geothermal energy keeps tomatoes warm and growing.

One woman's lifelong collection is on display in this unassuming house on an Icelandic fjord.

This plaque tells the story of an event that took place in an imagined parallel universe.

This monument to one of the largest science fiction games of all time bears the names of hundreds of thousands of players.

This tiny cabin was home to one of Iceland's most famous painters and was the only land he ever owned.

A charmingly eccentric magma chaser presents his complete history of the island's eruptions since 1947, in cinematic form, just for you.

A "simple-hearted artist" turned an isolated Icelandic valley into his own art museum.

A modern Nordic Pompeii on the Icelandic island of Heimaey.