The remains of the first saint from Alaska in the Russian Orthodox Church.

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

The northernmost truck stop in the United States.

This gravelly, dangerous highway is the only road in the United States that leads to the Arctic Ocean.

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

A little piece of the Shire is hidden behind a plant nursery in Port Orchard, Washington.

Bonsai trees that are up to a thousand years old.

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

The simple log cabin of a famed loner and naturalist stands preserved as a symbol of the ultimate DIY lifestyle.

A 246-foot-high revolving restaurant rises unexpectedly from a forested Finnish hilltop.

Hidden deep in a forest is this geological wonder carved by glaciers.

Roughly 17 million letters to Santa have found their way to this Arctic Circle post office.

Legend has this precariously placed rock was placed by giants. Science has another explanation.

This small cave in the center of Isla Colon doubles as a sanctuary.

A collection of heirloom roses tucked in a spectacularly beautiful botanical garden on Lake Atitlan.

Central America's deepest lake is actually a volcanic caldera, surrounded by three volcanoes.

An ancient Viking runestone hidden in plain view in Stockholm's old town.

Now a hotel, this former bank was the site of a robbery that spawned a psychological phenomenon.

Dine on food tied to Viking history and legend at this subterranean Stockholm spot.

Sweden's first nuclear reactor, R1, can be visited 25 meters underground.

An illuminated manuscript comprising the life's work of a lone monk, inexplicably decorated with a portrait of Satan himself.