Eclectic collection of rare and beautiful stones in a historic home.

A statue honors the genius who allegedly first took a meatball and made it into a hamburger.

The museum houses one of the world's largest collections of glass paperweights.

The remnants of this Douglas fir predate Columbus's arrival in North America.

This solitary gravestone is separated from the rest in Appleton, explaining why local legends continue to surround it.

This animatronic Christmas village within an industrial park creates a whimsical juxtaposition.

This museum glorifies the humble potato.

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

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

This super-sized statue is the only public memorial to the deal that ended America's neutrality during World War II.

11,500 year old little girl found buried in an ancient fire pit.

Research missiles and rainbow auroras at the world's largest land-based rocket range.

A morbid gateway to an Alaska town prides itself on the hunting history it represents.

The sculpture's largest spire points directly toward the North Star.

North America's first frozen mummified remains of an ice age steppe bison, the 36,000 year-old mummy named "Blue Babe."

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

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

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

A sarcastic monument threatens to curse any "idiot" who dares remove it.

When this test site was abandoned, they didn't even bother to take the rocket with them.

The world's largest collection of the world's largest objects is in one small Illinois town.

The 40-year-old machine serves soda quicker than you can catch it for a mere 75 cents a pop.

This abandoned Abraham Lincoln statue has also earned the honorary of "World's Ugliest."

In the loving memory of a tragically deceased role-player this Illinois park is decked out with both dungeons and dragons.