This general store is a one-stop-shop for workers at the Prudhoe Bay oil field.

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

Permanent exhibit reminds visitors of the Exxon Valdez.

This home is decked out like a psychedelic explosion of colors and bowling balls.

This gas station offers wine tastings and craft beer.

This historic pub has maintained much of its 1906 decor, including a small sequestered room for women, where orders were slipped through a tiny window.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.

An icon among Florida's pre-Disney tourist attractions.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.

Possibly the world's oldest rug, this Egyptian relic is woven entirely from ancient cat hair and once carried a mummified human foot.

Intertwined, interspecies trees which locals believe can grant boons to lovers.

In Florida, these naughty monkeys live on their own mini-monkey Alcatraz.

Where serial killer Aileen Wuornos drank her last beer.

This abandoned NASA launch site is now a memorial to a trio of astronauts who were killed there.

The humble home where the famous beat author lived briefly and wrote one of his most famous works.

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

The world's 2nd or 3rd or 4th busiest seaplane base.

The snowbirds here are circus sideshow performers.

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, rocks and fossils from every U.S. state were collected into a pyramid of national unity.

A tribute to a future time when gravity is conquered.

A tiny, unassuming park in Tampa that belongs to the Republic of Cuba.

An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.