A salty cave excavated by elephants and the location of a deadly disease vector.

This local art collective supports contemporary artists through a coveted residency program.

This urban park is home to monkeys and a number of endangered plants.

Kenyan restaurant is a carnivore's paradise, serving exotic meats at its ultimate 'Beast of a Feast.'

Located in Nairobi National Park, this animal orphanage is the oldest of its kind in Kenya.

This tourist village in Nairobi celebrates the traditional lifestyles and customs of Kenyan tribes.

Just outside of Nairobi lies a large estate surrounded by endangered Rothschild giraffes, who have been fed from the window by Mick Jagger and Walter Cronkite.

This beautiful, all-in-one museum, private residence, and bed and breakfast houses a rich collection of African art.

Life and death are on parade at the most reliably perilous site of “the Great Migration.”

The memorial honors the lives of rhinoceroses killed by poachers.

Mind-blowing carvings and fantasy ice scenes grace the largest year-round ice environment in the world.

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

Every summer, the Mendenhall River greenbelt comes alive with an explosion of magenta flowers.

Clean, cold drinking water flows from a nondescript pipe in a roadside rock face.

The only house built with a turret, crenellations, and a moat in Palmer, Alaska.

Known as the “Official Greeter of Juneau,” this dog still welcomes ships and their passengers to Alaska.

One of two side-by-side totem pole parks dedicated to educating visitors on Tlingit history and culture.

On top of a sheet metal business in Juneau stand nearly a dozen charming Wizard of Oz statues.

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

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

Upside-down trees serve as natural flower pots in this hanging garden of Alaska.

Surprisingly delicious Asian-style hot dogs.

A pixel art killer whale is frozen mid-leap in this Vancouver square.

Traditional 15th century Chinese garden in the middle of Vancouver.