The ghostly remains of what was once the world's richest copper mine.

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

This small city where almost everyone lives in the same building can only be reached via North America's longest tunnel.

Permanent exhibit reminds visitors of the Exxon Valdez.

The ruins of a town wiped out by the second-largest earthquake in recorded history.

This junkyard made over as a theme park is the "Most Alaskan place in Alaska."

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

11,500 year old little girl found buried in an ancient fire pit.

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

The remains of a town so thoroughly destroyed by French forces that the citizens simply left.

This shrine to film's most iconic wasteland wanderer is located in the very outback where the movies were shot.

The most iconic structure in Scotland has been home to bishops, colonels, and Sean Connery characters.

A historic hotel that made a cameo in Hitchcock's classic film has no intention of letting guests forget its fame.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

New England's "Witches of Eastwick" locations, in all of their quaint white churched glory.

House used in the 1971 horror film "Let's Scare Jessica to Death."

Hundreds of pieces of ancient Taíno art cover the walls of this Caribbean cave system.

Columbus' failed colony in the New World.

Renowned restaurant tucked in a cave once occupied by buccaneers.

The oldest colonial fortress in the Americas was once the home and later prison of Christopher Columbus.

An innovative attempt to break a siege in the American Civil War still scars the earth today.

Performers, intricate sets, and a real speakeasy tell the story of the 18th Amendment.

This stunning Connecticut mansion is actually just a one-room-deep hoax.

This Art Deco fortress in upstate New York gives Manhattan's vaunted examples of the style a run for their money.