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

The "Gateway to the Arctic" connects Barrow's indigenous population with the sea and its traditional industry: whaling.

Commemorating the lives of a renowned humorist and a famed aviator who died in a plane crash in northern Alaska.

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

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

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

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

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

Gorgeous cave resemble a winter wonderland.

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

Buy your friend a drink or staple some cash to the wall for the next guy at the Salty Dawg Saloon.

The largest collection of ornamental hair combs on the planet.

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

All that remains of a gigantic earth-moving machine.

Ohio's 19th-century communist micro-society.

This stuffed pigeon of war had the very serious name "John Silver" until he lost a leg in battle.

Inside houses a vast collection of military aircraft and missiles spanning the ages.

You can walk through the first Boeing Air Force One, which famously carried JFK's casket from Dallas back to D.C.

A real flying saucer, contracted by the U.S. Air Force.

This underground holding cell was forgotten for over a century and rediscovered in the 1960s.

Halloween spirit is alive and well in this small town, where residents race motorized caskets in a yearly tradition.

The spectacular collection of one of the world's best woodcarvers.

A tribute to one of the most famous cowboys on TV, and the consumerism that fueled his popularity.

A collection of thousands of pieces of unique, colorful glass made in this Ohio town.