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

This historic collection of Native Alaskan artifacts was resurrected through a partnership between the WPA and tribal artisans.

This WWII-era military installation once held an entire city within its walls - now, its walls are falling down.

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

While not recognized by Guinness, this chocolate waterfall is likely to be the world's largest.

This small city where almost everyone lives in the same building can only be reached via North America's longest tunnel.

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

Colorful boxes placed over the dead are left to rot and crumble.

Four-story concrete hotel never opened to customers.

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

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

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

Gorgeous cave resemble a winter wonderland.

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

The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.

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

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

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

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

This former luxury resort in Kaua'i is now an abandoned relic.

What remains of the summer palace of King Kamehameha III.

A Hawaiian stairway to heaven—that you can't climb.

Ten acres of the Kula Forest Reserve make up this wonderous state park.

Once the site of the Hawaiian monarchy, this building was originally designed as a palace.