A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.

For posterity, a singular achievement: 3,780 hours of dancing.

Vice President Humphrey's final resting place is tucked away in this cemetery along with a few other notable figures.

This iconic water tower and failed bandstand is open for panoramic views once a year.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

Funhouse of found art and participatory sculpture.

Come for the giant taxidermy lion, stay for the knick knacks at this Minneapolis curiosity shop.

From burial ground bocce ball court.

A little-known memorial to servicemen and nurses killed in the line of duty during the First World War.

The simple log cabin of a famed loner and naturalist stands preserved as a symbol of the ultimate DIY lifestyle.

Open day and night, a church with three pews and Bibles.

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

During the summer, surfers in Alaska take advantage of this inlet’s unusual water patterns.

A suburban street in Anchorage doubles as a runway, and each home has its own airplane hangar.

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

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

A sarcastic monument threatens to curse any "idiot" who dares remove it.

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

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

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

An Alaska livestock farm devotes itself to harvesting wool from creatures that once ran with mammoths and sabertooth tigers.

The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.

Mind-blowing carvings and fantasy ice scenes grace the largest year-round ice environment in the world.