Impressive artifacts from Juneau's gold mining days fill this mining site-turned-museum.

The only house built with a turret, crenellations, and a moat in Palmer, Alaska.

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

The cultural center preserves the history of the Tlingit tribe, who have lived in this Alaska village for more than 10,000 years.

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

Often mistaken for an office building, inside this venue is an amazing collection of Native Alaskan art.

Alaska Natives have lived on this tiny isolated island in the Bering Strait for over 5,000 years.

On top of a sheet metal business in Juneau stand nearly a dozen charming Wizard of Oz statues.

The northernmost international land border crossing in the United States.

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

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

A giant poultry statue immortalizes one of Alaska's more humorous town names.

Massive mounds of golden sand look like a desert landscape randomly plopped in an Arctic forest.

Once a bustling cotton factory, this early 20th-century building is now home to a thriving artspace.

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.

This botanical garden has been nicknamed "Alabama's Little Corner of Greece."

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.

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

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

Colloquially known as "the lynching memorial," this is the United States' first memorial to the victims of racial terror at home.

Come for the boats, stay to explore the intriguing assortment of art.

This 12-foot-tall T-rex is the largest K’Nex skeleton sculpture in the world.

These ruins are all that's left of the former Alabama State Capitol.