This Alaskan town appoints the general store's resident feline as honorary mayor.

Siberian husky that delivered a life-saving antitoxin.

Colorful boxes placed over the dead are left to rot and crumble.

The beginning of the historic Iditarod Trail connecting the Alaskan cities of Seward and Nome.

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

A cylinder monument with a spectacular vista commemorates a friendship that some say never existed.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

This residential door allows San Francisco muggles a glimpse at the wizarding world.

The rest of him lived another 61 years and was buried elsewhere.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

The stones that traveled from Spain to eventually become a holy place for San Francisco's nature worshippers.

This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.

This grinning pup statue is all that's left of what was once a ubiquitous Bay Area diner chain.

Forgotten and then destroyed by fire, this was once one of the largest saltwater swimming pools in the world.

Outside San Francisco lies a small clown cemetery and memorial.

A trail weaves through the verses of a poem illustrated by stone sculptures inspired by Native American pictographs.

A classically inspired temple in Redwood City.

This old-world mansion with lush gardens is a gem in the heart of Silicon Valley.

The most beautiful Taco Bell in the world even has surfboard parking.

Here, visitors can swing with the waves of the Pacific Ocean.

This quirky roadside attraction dives into the many theories surrounding North America's most infamous hairy cryptid.

The place where Czar Peter I of Russia resided in 1697 during his Grand Embassy.

This Czar-funded, onion-domed, lavishly muraled Orthodox Church played a starring role in "The Deer Hunter."

Legend has it this gnarled old tree was planted by Tsar Peter the Great during his visit to London.