This UFO landing strip was created by a charitable Wyoming city that was worried about residents of Jupiter.

This massive metal sculpture in the shape of a folded paper airplane overlooks a Utah mountain.

A proto micro-nation sometimes populated by artists, surrounded on all sides by a Utah most barren.

The mayor made the declaration in 2004.

Despite his legacy of work in Spain, Cuba, and Florida, the larger-than-life writer's grave is a simple affair tucked in an Idaho cemetery.

See just what life was like in a 19th-century prospecting town.

On top of a sheet metal business in Juneau stand nearly a dozen charming Wizard of Oz statues.

Upside-down trees serve as natural flower pots in this hanging garden of Alaska.

Breathtakingly blue walls shimmer inside the "Glacier Behind the Town."

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

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

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

A tiny wilderness cemetery commemorates the deadliest episode of the Klondike Gold Rush.

A rare kind of blue bear can be found chiefly in the national park that shares their name.

Don't be a grizzly man. Get personal with Alaska's wild bears from the safety of this conservationist camp.

This junkyard made over as a theme park is the "Most Alaskan place in Alaska."

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

Four-story concrete hotel never opened to customers.

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

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

This popular fishing spot at the outflow of a 4.5-mile long hydroelectric tunnel sports a jetty literally made out of classic cars.

An Alaska livestock farm devotes itself to harvesting wool from creatures that once ran with mammoths and sabertooth tigers.

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

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.