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

A rare chance to get up close and personal with a 13-mile ribbon of ice near downtown Juneau.

Upside-down trees serve as natural flower pots in this hanging garden of Alaska.

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

A classic gold rush hotel can be expected to pick up some ghosts along the way, and the Golden North is no exception.

Since it formed millions of years ago, this cave system has been a sacred burial ground, a Prohibition-era speakeasy, and the center of an amusement park.

This 880-acre facility is home to a massive collection of vintage motorcycles and cars, as well as a 2.38-mile race course.

Believed to be the oldest active college baseball field in America.

This little-known memorial honors those who have donated their bodies to medical training.

The permanent home of a 1960s traveling museum of tiny historical dioramas.

That bass was as bad a fish as any angler ever knew.

A cemetery for only coon hounds in northwest Alabama.

A propulsion engine testbed that paved the way for the Space Shuttle launch sits without recognition at this rocket center.

It may look like no more than a full-scale model, but every part of this full Space Shuttle stack had a working role in aviation history.

Joe Minter is only doing the work of God in his yard, he says.

This ghost town houses the remains of Alabama's old state capital.

A collection of huge Pre-Colombian structures in Alabama.

A miniature city built by a single hunchbacked monk.

Tucked away atop a quaint Alabama pharmacy is this tiny display of antique medical tools.

The middle finger of modernity.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

Herman Melville wrote 'Moby Dick' in this landmark 18th-century house surrounded by farmland.

This otherwise innocuous bodega was once the headquarters of the most feared assassin's guild in American history.

An author's private collection of quirky travel-trinkets and oddities has become a rotating mini-museum in the window of a local bookstore.