The stickered marker pinpoints where the only maintained road in the United States crosses into the polar region.

A trading post in the North Pole where children send letters.

A giant poultry statue immortalizes one of Alaska's more humorous town names.

The world's largest dark sky preserve is a Canadian park established to preserve the country's last wood bison.

Roadside collection of 65,000 signs.

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

The large fjord lake is thought to be the home of "Ogopogo," a giant sea serpent.

This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.

This chilly Canadian hotel has a four-month lifespan due to the unusual material it's made of.

More than 50,000 gannets claim the cliffs of Bonaventure Island.

This Canadian monument to the man who invented the telephone allows visitors to get up close and personal with the artifacts of his life.

Site of the first official transatlantic wireless communications.

The first transatlantic wireless signal was received at this 17th-century fort.

A World War II gun battery sits at the easternmost point of North America.

Hundreds of enormous icebergs drift through this waterway every year.

An ancient Viking village in North America that predates Columbus by 500 years.

A forlorn fishing village on the coast of Labrador, full of shipwrecks and Spanish gold.

A popular Icelandic children's story comes to life inside this cave.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

Iceland's tribute to its thankless civil servants.

This stunning concert hall has become a symbol of Iceland's national recovery.

This beautiful, historic church looks like something out of a simpler past.

The picturesque birthplace of Icelandic democracy is drenched in the blood of its brutal past.

This hobbit-y little hot spring may be the oldest spring used by humans in all of Iceland.