This remote fort on the Yukon River is a vestige of the wild Alaska gold rush.

11,500 year old little girl found buried in an ancient fire pit.

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

An abandoned aircraft sits submerged in a lake in the Alaska wilderness.

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

A morbid gateway to an Alaska town prides itself on the hunting history it represents.

This super-sized statue is the only public memorial to the deal that ended America's neutrality during World War II.

This free series of exhibitions honors the fascinating history of the region.

This mile marker stands at the unofficial end of a highway built to defend the United States from a Japanese invasion during World War II.

The sculpture's largest spire points directly toward the North Star.

The collection includes seven one-of-a-kind automobiles, vintage fashion, and more.

A sarcastic monument threatens to curse any "idiot" who dares remove it.

North America's first frozen mummified remains of an ice age steppe bison, the 36,000 year-old mummy named "Blue Babe."

One woman's dream became a train hotel in her backyard.

This frozen tunnel in central Alaska is both an engineering feat and a valuable climate classroom.

Research missiles and rainbow auroras at the world's largest land-based rocket range.

A hulking remnant of Alaska's industrial gold mining boom in the 1920s.

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

Two islands just 4 km apart separated by an International Border and Date Line.

Alaska Natives have lived on this tiny isolated island in the Bering Strait for over 5,000 years.

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

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.