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

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

The northernmost truck stop in the United States.

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

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 whimsical stacked cabin looks like something out of a children's book.

An Alaska livestock farm devotes itself to harvesting wool from creatures that once ran with mammoths and sabertooth tigers.

This popular fishing spot at the outflow of a 4.5-mile long hydroelectric tunnel sports a jetty literally made out of classic cars.

Internationally recognized group that works to protect the wolf and educate the public about its plight.

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

The ghostly remains of what was once the world's richest copper mine.

At 238 feet above the bottom of a gorge this span is known as the biggest thrill on the road to McCarthy.

Gorgeous cave resemble a winter wonderland.

The picturesque remains of an abandoned silver mine slope down to Tagish Lake in the Yukon.

A rare chance to get up close and personal with a 13-mile ribbon of ice near downtown Juneau.

Breathtakingly blue walls shimmer inside the "Glacier Behind the Town."

This National Natural Landmark is one of the best examples of a “mass wasting” in the world.

Texas's oldest bakery serves authentic German pastries, including legendary strudel.

A popular swimming hole that hides one of America's most deadly diving spots.

This eight-mile stretch of road gets its name from a local legend about a lost soul searching for his head.