Hawai'i's oldest wooden house was shipped around Cape Horn from Boston in 1820.

Ten acres of the Kula Forest Reserve make up this wondrous state park.

This ruined fort and statue are a testament to the last king of Kaua‘i’s savvy diplomacy skills, which briefly brought Russians to Hawai‘i.

Once the site of the Hawaiian monarchy, this building was originally designed as a palace.

This World War II-era bunker is now packed with posters and props from movies and TV shows filmed nearby.

A cooled lava flow from the Haleakalā volcano formed these surreal-looking columnar basalt structures.

An authentic replica of an Asian temple and garden hidden amongst the natural beauty of Hawai'i.

This mom-and-pop Japanese sweets shop has been serving cloud-light mochi for almost a century.

This industrial area was the dumping ground for massive amounts of trash, some of which washes up as tiny bits of sea glass.

These picturesque Hawaiian falls are home to a rare species of fish that uses a special sucker to climb up cliffs.

This black shoreline is made up of exploded lava particles.

A beach made of semi-precious green sand on the Big Island of Hawai'i.

The island of Lanai in Hawai'i is a paradise for cats and cat lovers.

Hide from the tourist hordes in these relatively unknown, and unguarded lava caves.

In the middle of the Alaskan wilderness, lies a train trestle to nowhere.

Pay homage to a preeminent matriarch, and the native Dena’ina people, at this sculpture installation in Anchorage.

A quirky roadside sign was the subject of a years-long legal standoff over highway right-of-way clearances. 

A copy of the famous bus used during the filming of 'Into the Wild' is on display at an Alaska brewery.

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

The crumbling remains of Juneau's explosives storage site.

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

This general store is a one-stop-shop for workers at the Prudhoe Bay oil field.

See a full-scale whale skeleton and experience the captivating culture of Alaska’s Native people at this heritage center in east Anchorage.

In 1912, this idyllic Alaska landscape was blown apart in the largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century.