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

Four-story concrete hotel never opened to customers.

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

This ghostly Alaska village still clings to a steep cliffside despite having been abandoned for over 50 years.

Alaska Natives have lived on this tiny isolated island in the Bering Strait for over 5,000 years.

Some of the world's only freshwater seals live in one very special lake in Russia.

Thanks to a spelling mistake this bizarre beaver-tiger hybrid became the symbol of a Siberian town.

A huge communist-era propaganda monument and mural that offers stunning views of the Mongolian capital.

The grassy landscape is home to the world's last truly wild horses.

This spiritual landmark for practicers of Shamanism is drenched in milk and vodka and covered in blue scarves.

Hidden treasures belonging to Mongolia's most revered and multi-talented monk spent decades buried in the Gobi desert.

Mongolian Buddhists believe this monastery in the Gobi desert to be the center of the world's spiritual energy.

At this Minnesota state park you can easily wade across the source of the mighty Mississippi.

Thousands of majestic trumpeter swans fill this park, sounding distinctly like a certain brass instrument.

17,400 lbs., 12 feet in diameter, and 29 years in the making.

Home of St. Urho, the fictional patron saint of Finland.

Buy your friend a drink or staple some cash to the wall for the next guy at the Salty Dawg Saloon.

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

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

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

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

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

Two islands just 4 km apart separated by an International Border and Date Line.

America's largest viking stands in a Minnesota city that believes it was visited by the ancient nords.