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

During the summer, surfers in Alaska take advantage of this inlet’s unusual water patterns.

The ruins of a town wiped out by the second-largest earthquake in recorded history.

Internationally recognized group that works to protect the wolf and educate the public about its plight.

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

An abandoned aircraft sits submerged in a lake in the Alaska wilderness.

Massive mounds of golden sand look like a desert landscape randomly plopped in an Arctic forest.

The ruins of this Alaska gold mine form a gorgeous ghost town.

Four-story concrete hotel never opened to customers.

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

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

Keshwa chaca, among the last handwoven Incan bridges, crosses Apurimac Canyon in Peru.

Natural cathedral designed by Italian artist Giuliano Mauri.

Centuries-old bridges grown from tangled roots.

A brutalist gem towering over the heart of Milan.

A futuristic hovertrain is parked unceremoniously alongside a nondescript road.

Pause in an abandoned hydroelectric station, now overrun with wildlife, to consider a thought-provoking poem.

A subterranean playground in an abandoned slate mine.

The artist David Nash planted a circle of trees in 1977.

A hidden tunnel leads to an abandoned slate quarry that's now a secret swimming spot guarded by cliffs.

This abandoned, partly demolished building is now home to beautiful graffiti and murals.

Iceland's only steampunk shop imagines a retro-futuristic world that never was.

Once the site of a 12-century monastery, this tiny island is now home to only five permanent residents.

This volcanic cave lake is essentially hard proof that Iceland is the most magical place on Earth.