Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.

In the absence of a Chinese-language newspaper, for years the community posted daily updates on this simple bulletin board.

A whale of a public art display towers atop Juneau's cruise ship dock.

A monument commemorating the role of Alaska's native Tlingit guides in the Klondike Gold Rush.

Originally a brothel during the Klondike Gold Rush, this bar once used dolls to denote when ladies were working.

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

The remains of the first saint from Alaska in the Russian Orthodox Church.

At 238 feet above the bottom of a gorge this span is known as the biggest thrill on the road to McCarthy.

The facade of this relic from the Klondike gold rush is decorated with over 8,800 pieces of driftwood.

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

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

In northern Ohio, the glorious past of America's trains is on full display.

A community gathering place that once housed half-ton tanks and the World's Fair.

Washington's iconic carousel has a nice piece of Civil Rights history.

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."

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

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

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

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

This recently restored timepiece has stood all around Kansas City.

The first car-centric shopping plaza in the U.S. brought a little bit of Spain to downtown Kansas City.

Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

A piece of John the Baptist in the American heartland.