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

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

A high school astronomy enthusiast designed this model of our solar system to be traversed on foot.

This junkyard made over as a theme park is the "Most Alaskan place in Alaska."

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

The site of one of Japan's very few American occupations during World War II still holds the relics of a roundly disastrous campaign.

Don't be a grizzly man. Get personal with Alaska's wild bears from the safety of this conservationist camp.

Low tide reveals 8,000-year-old rock carvings in Southern Alaska.

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

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

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

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

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

The ruins of this Alaska gold mine form a gorgeous ghost town.

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

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

Four-story concrete hotel never opened to customers.

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

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

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

Gorgeous cave resemble a winter wonderland.

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.