An auroral research program that superheats the ionosphere.

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

Four-story concrete hotel never opened to customers.

The sculpture's largest spire points directly toward the North Star.

A morbid gateway to an Alaska town prides itself on the hunting history it represents.

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

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

One woman's dream became a train hotel in her backyard.

North America's first frozen mummified remains of an ice age steppe bison, the 36,000 year-old mummy named "Blue Babe."

This super-sized statue is the only public memorial to the deal that ended America's neutrality during World War II.

Research missiles and rainbow auroras at the world's largest land-based rocket range.

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

The northernmost truck stop in the United States.

This historic church is named for abolitionist Henry Ward Beecher and the ruse to arm his fellow abolitionists.

A wonderful collection of all things Oz is nestled in the heart of Kansas.

During the 1990's nearly all of the world's LSD is thought to have come from the operators of the lab once located in this missile silo.

The Quapaw tribe supplies the meat and produce in this Oklahoma casino restaurant.

What happens when a chef with indigenous roots takes over a hotel-restaurant?

Abandoned businesses, homes, and rusted cars are all that remains of this stopover town.

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

An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.

The graffiti-covered ruins of an abandoned trading post in the middle of Navajo Nation.

Artifacts and memories from the Vietnam war, located in a place that experienced it first hand.

A nightmare for the claustrophobic lies hidden in Southeast Asia.