San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.

With the touch of a button, you can read a randomly selected short story.

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

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

A whale of a public art display towers atop Juneau's cruise ship dock.

Often mistaken for an office building, inside this venue is an amazing collection of Native Alaskan art.

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

Originally a brothel during the Klondike Gold Rush, this bar once used dolls to denote when ladies were working.

A suburban street in Anchorage doubles as a runway, and each home has its own airplane hangar.

One of two side-by-side totem pole parks dedicated to educating visitors on Tlingit history and culture.

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

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

A classic gold rush hotel can be expected to pick up some ghosts along the way, and the Golden North is no exception.

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

A tree bears footwear on the loneliest road in America.

An abandoned cyanide mill is now a haunting magnet for graffiti and illegal parties.

Mysterious meeting place for UFO hunters near Area 51.

An iconic 1960s theater with a Buckminster Fuller-style geodesic dome.