This Alaska library may be the only one in the country that allows you to check out pieces of taxidermy.

A suburban street in Anchorage doubles as a runway, and each home has its own airplane hangar.

During the summer, surfers in Alaska take advantage of this inlet’s unusual water patterns.

Internationally recognized group that works to protect the wolf and educate the public about its plight.

While not recognized by Guinness, this chocolate waterfall is likely to be the world's largest.

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

Georgia's answer to Easter Island immortalizes the nation's great poets, artists, and leaders in stone glory.

This innocuous New Mexico storefront was once the secret jump-off spot for Manhattan Project scientists.

This high desert botanical garden is a unique display of New Mexico’s ecology and culture.

Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

A serene garden path lined with 36 haiku stamped into clay stones.

Thousands of mounted insects, and some live ones, hide within an otherwise ordinary shopping mall.

This sculpture perfectly models the molecular structure of a drug that was never produced.

These Pre-Columbian petroglyphs contain representations of birds, deer, hunters, and even some early Native flute players.

An eatery within the Minneapolis American Indian Center writes colonial ingredients out of the story of Native American cuisine.

Recognized the world over as the home of the McCallisters in the 1990 movie "Home Alone."

The ravine where Jesse James supposedly performed an impossible jump to evade capture.

The lowest point in South Dakota and the source of the Minnesota River.

Known as "The Hill of the Little Devils."

A roadside collection of over-sized iron creations that are a bit more macabre than most.

Devilish landscape, once cinema home to giant alien bugs, now derelict roadside attraction.

A small town built on an abandoned airfield has former runways as streets and a bar and grill in an old airplane hangar.

This beautiful ancient site is dotted with perforated sandstone pillars considered sacred by some Native American groups.