The easternmost town in Alaska can only be accessed from Canada.

Despite being dead since the 1970s, this Canadian tree is kept upright and intact by adoring locals.

A sleepy little town that had the greatest landslide in North American history fall on it.

Nestled near the mountains of western Canada resides this behemoth earth mover.

In British Columbia, a unique microclimate has allowed these trees to live much longer than they usually would.

This house was largely built out of hundreds of thousands of discarded glass embalming fluid bottles.

These century-old beehive-shaped kilns were built to produce charcoal for nearby mines.

Supposedly Satanic numbers adorn this preserved submarine sail.

Tucked away on a scenic trail, a modest memorial honors one of the greatest writers of our time.

Despite his legacy of work in Spain, Cuba, and Florida, the larger-than-life writer's grave is a simple affair tucked in an Idaho cemetery.

This underground cave located in the most barren reaches of Idaho is filled with ice year-round.

Three generations of intrepid collectors display their curious artifacts in a homemade museum right next to the caves they discovered.

One of the "twins" in these falls on the Snake River was sacrificed for hydropower generation in the 1930s.

Birdhouses, peacocks, animal sculptures, and a graveyard are all found along this eclectic nature trail.

This landmark is a central figure in the Nez Perce origin story.

Sweet Willy, at 30 feet tall, is the world's biggest beagle.

The secluded site of a 1943 plane crash and amazing rescue is only accessible by hiking through the woods.

This remarkably well-preserved Egyptian plinth is pretty well traveled for a giant piece of stone.

A fountain standing as a testament to a doomed alliance.

A small etching on the white marble parapet was written in runic script by a Viking mercenary.

No one is sure if the world's fourth-largest diamond had been found in a rubbish heap or was pawned by Napoleon's mom.

1513 Turkish world map, full of European state secrets and snarky commentary.

This column celebrates Rome's victory over the Goths, and may be the oldest Roman monument in Istanbul.

A surprising and unconventional mosque hidden in the subsoil of Istanbul.