Locals believe the purity of this huge, untouched Arctic lake could be the salvation of human civilization.

The most northerly active sand dunes in the world have some very rare botanical residents.

This remote Moravian mission brought Christianity—as well as devastation—to the Inuit people.

A long-disputed island that Denmark and Canada claim by periodically alternating flags and bottles of liquor.

The world's northernmost flowers cling tenuously to life on desolate Kaffeklubben Island.

A Cold War atomic camp buried under the ice is now emerging because of global warming.

Neither bomb blasts nor heartbeats escape the giant ears of this super sci-fi Arctic outpost.

The closest thing to Mars on Earth.

The remote graves mark the mysterious deaths of four 19th century explorers.

Over 400,000 birds spend their summers nesting on this small Arctic island.

The Arctic Archipelago is home to world's largest third order island: an island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island.

A modern version of the stone cairns built by the Inuit.

This landlocked lake is the world's largest on an island.

Although it has never been a secret ninja base, this shrine still has plenty of tricks up its sleeve.

This 1,700-pound edible sculpture is way better than your average chocolate mousse.

Working wool mill used as the exterior for the mill in the 1990 horror film "Graveyard Shift."

Scene of the grisly murder of two Norwegian women in 1873.

The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

Dramatic river bend surrounds a natural red-rocked pedestal.

This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.