This whimsical stacked cabin looks like something out of a children's book.

Permanent exhibit reminds visitors of the Exxon Valdez.

Siberian husky that delivered a life-saving antitoxin.

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

A high school astronomy enthusiast designed this model of our solar system to be traversed on foot.

While not recognized by Guinness, this chocolate waterfall is likely to be the world's largest.

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

This Alaska library may be the only one in the country that allows you to check out pieces of taxidermy.

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

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

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

A once-thriving hotel in the Swiss Alps couldn't compete with climate change.

An artificial crater field that trained astronauts for lunar exploration.

This historic national park is covered in the stunning ruins of red rock pueblos.

A mysterious spirit totem at the edge of Navajo lands.

The cinder cone volcano with a less than complimentary name.

An annual festival celebrating Colorado's most famous frozen corpse.

The clock that sets them all.

A research lab and hands-on museum where visitors can experiment with retro technology.

The oddly shaped, steam-spewing building is now an art studio and gallery.

A special shop catering to the needs of things that go bump in the night, and also helps kids become writers.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.