A trading post in the North Pole where children send letters.

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

The northernmost truck stop in the United States.

This gravelly, dangerous highway is the only road in the United States that leads to the Arctic Ocean.

Roadside collection of 65,000 signs.

This tiny square mile of Canadian sand was once considered the world's smallest desert.

Home to a full cast of the largest woolly mammoth ever recovered in North America. 

This decommissioned DC-3 now forever points into the oncoming wind.

A skeletal collection of former nautical mainstays.

A famed drink seasoned with an amputated toe, now on its tenth digit.

The bronze uniforms commemorate the vital role of women during World War II.

Norway's oldest cathedral still in use.

Longest road tunnel in the world features an air treatment plant and the illusion of daylight.

One of the most breathtaking railways in Europe also takes one of the steepest climbs, from fjord to mountain plateau.

A Viking-style brewpub named for a Norse sea giant, in the heart of fjord country.

A serpentine highway twists and turns over the treacherous Norwegian Sea.

Said to be one of Sweden's most haunted places, this vicarage once even attracted a ghost-busting priest.