One of Alaska's most significant ancient sites, spanning millennia and cultures, is right under the feet of some famously fat bears.

Don't be a grizzly man. Get personal with Alaska's wild bears from the safety of this conservationist camp.

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

The stickered marker pinpoints where the only maintained road in the United States crosses into the polar region.

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

This ghostly Alaska village still clings to a steep cliffside despite having been abandoned for over 50 years.

Siberian whale bones stand as cairns marking location of an ancient butcher yard.

An ancient temple of Lord Shiva was rediscovered in an excavation in 2003.

At low tide, you can see the remains of a 17th-century ship just off a Stockholm island.

This log house sits in the remote Canadian wilderness, and holds a mysterious tale of the trapper who built it.

Over 300 historical instruments from around the world can be found in the Royal Northern College of Music's basement.

This striking pig statue was part of a 1993 guerilla art project against racism.

A unique museum that uses visual art and storytelling to reveal the hidden history of the Gullah Geechee and their African ancestors.

A relatively young Buddhist temple on hilltop, dedicated to a statue relocated from Mount Atago.

This remote site in the Australian Outback is where the British government conducted atomic bomb tests in the 1950s.

The sole remaining outpost of a once-thriving South Carolina chain still sells “pic-a-nic” baskets.

This art gallery and oddities boutique bewitches visitors with a trove of occult trinkets and eccentric antiques, work by an ever-changing roster of underground artists, and classes in tarot and other mystic arts.

Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

This museum celebrating the almighty dollar lets visitors literally stand in the shadow of a million bucks.

A bloodstain from "the wound of the transverberation of the heart."

No one knows how many bodies are in this vault in a Chicago public park.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

Chicago's North Park Village was once the largest municipal sanatorium in the country.