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

This now-abandoned part of the original transcontinental railroad route provides a surreal driving and historical experience.

A lonely beacon, precariously perched atop a remote sliver of rock.

Tracing a path of more than four miles around a frozen lake, this is the longest skate trail in the United States.

For this chef, an active volcano is his oven.

Thanks to a quirk of elevation this gift shop produces magic doughnuts that are found nowhere else on Earth.

A plaque and memorabilia collection mark where A&W got its start.

More than half of this Indian palace is drowned but it looks all the more spectacular for it.

A hulking remnant of Alaska's industrial gold mining boom in the 1920s.

US-50 in Nevada is known as "the Loneliest Road in America," but this earlier iteration of the route is even lonelier.

This ramshackle ghost town is comprised of mining-era buildings collected from around the region.

A ghost town originally established and governed solely by Black Americans seeking a place of their own, free from discrimination.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

This remote fort on the Yukon River is a vestige of the wild Alaska gold rush.

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

In the early 1900s, hundreds of Black Americans found opportunity in this now-abandoned rural community.

A cake-themed art installation tucked away in historic Chinatown.

Explore the wide world of desert plants at this unique Palm Springs botanical garden.

An 18-mile-long tunnel for sewage waste will soon wind within the bowels of Washington, D.C.

This Slovakian statue of an emerging sewer worker might just be a bronze peeping tom.

An elegant chandelier hangs over this ancient sewer chamber, now open for concerts and public tours.

The "Greatest Sewer" of ancient Rome is one of the oldest sewer systems in the world, and is still in use.

For just a few hours each morning, this market serves specialties from the city's shrinking Chinese-Indian community.

Home to one of the most popular teams in Scottish football history.