This Alaskan town appoints the general store's resident feline as honorary mayor.

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

Colorful boxes placed over the dead are left to rot and crumble.

An Alaska livestock farm devotes itself to harvesting wool from creatures that once ran with mammoths and sabertooth tigers.

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

The northernmost truck stop in the United States.

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

In the Shawnee National Forest, amazing rock formations peer through the treeline.

An underground magnet for ever-changing street art.

The shortest river in America flows for just 201 feet.

This museum dedicated to an oft-overlooked support industry features a surprisingly moving brass diorama of a man being saved from a sinking car.

This small cemetery contains the graves of prisoners of war who were interred at Fort McClellan during World War II.

What better place to take a seat?

Fragments of a massive unfinished sculpture sit near the main quad of the University of Illinois.

The lowest point in the state of Illinois, at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers.

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

This old train trestle and collapsed tunnel once allowed the railroad to negotiate the steep slopes of the Colorado Rockies.

Massive still life just off the highway in Kansas.

Once an ancient sea, this landscape of rocky ravines is filled with the fossils of ancient marine life.

One of the Eight Wonders of Kansas and the first official National Natural Monument these stark formations look like nature's Stonehenge.

These otherworldly limestone formations jut out from the Kansas prairie.

Tombstone of a dog that greeted passengers at the Southern Railway Depot.

This labyrinth was designed to help visitors focus and meditate.

The hometown of Popeye's creator is littered with a growing collection of granite cartoon characters.