A monument commemorating the role of Alaska's native Tlingit guides in the Klondike Gold Rush.

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

A giant poultry statue immortalizes one of Alaska's more humorous town names.

A historic freight system that found the true gold rush is in tourism.

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

This historic collection of Native Alaskan artifacts was resurrected through a partnership between the WPA and tribal artisans.

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

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

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

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

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

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

As communication goes completely wireless, this Maine museum remembers all the wires that got us to this point.

A mural of a boy making a phone call connects a southern Maine community to a town in Iraq.

This candy-striped tower is the farthest east you can go in the United States.

A precariously balanced rock perches on the edge of a cliff created tens of thousands of years ago by glacial erosion.

When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.

A strange mark in the stone fence of a cemetery fabled to have been made by the Devil himself.

This 19th century granite fortification is one of the most well preserved forts in New England.

This handsome giant is said to mark the birthplace of the mythical woodsman and even had a cameo in a Stephen King novel.

New England's tallest light house stands on an island with a history of cannibalism and death.

True to its name, this bouncy walkway may be the world’s smallest suspension bridge.

This tiny patch of arid sand sits in one of the greenest states in the United States.

The eccentric mansion of one the most popular horror authors of modern times.