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

At 238 feet above the bottom of a gorge this span is known as the biggest thrill on the road to McCarthy.

The northernmost international land border crossing in the United States.

A rare kind of blue bear can be found chiefly in the national park that shares their name.

A museum devoted entirely to hammers has more than 1,400 items on display dating back to the Romans.

A tiny wilderness cemetery commemorates the deadliest episode of the Klondike Gold Rush.

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

A whale of a public art display towers atop Juneau's cruise ship dock.

The crumbling remains of Juneau's explosives storage site.

A monument commemorating the role of Alaska's native Tlingit guides in the Klondike Gold Rush.

Originally a brothel during the Klondike Gold Rush, this bar once used dolls to denote when ladies were working.

A historic freight system that found the true gold rush is in tourism.

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

A classic gold rush hotel can be expected to pick up some ghosts along the way, and the Golden North is no exception.

The picturesque remains of an abandoned silver mine slope down to Tagish Lake in the Yukon.

At a lodge and RV park is a collection of headwear that comes in at more than 11,300 and counting.

This museum provides a personal and intimate journey through the history of the Northern Rockies.

The frozen bubbles that form on the icy surface of this Canadian lake contain enough methane to create a small explosion.

In 1909, the steepest and most difficult piece of track on the Canadian Pacific Railway was replaced with a series of spiralling tunnels cut into the mountains.

Every fall this lake mysteriously drains, like a bathtub with the plug pulled out.

Take a hike to this remote, scenic tea stop in the Canadian Rockies.

Though many were skeptical at first, these animal-specific routes across the Trans-Canada Highway have been a major conservation success.

What was to be the world's most secure Cold War document vault ended up as just a few shallow caves.

Try the alligator at this fondue spot, which has been catering to "lovers and hedonists" since 1967.