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

A giant poultry statue immortalizes one of Alaska's more humorous town names.

The northernmost international land border crossing in the United States.

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

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

The only house built with a turret, crenellations, and a moat in Palmer, Alaska.

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

Siberian husky that delivered a life-saving antitoxin.

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

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

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

A suburban street in Anchorage doubles as a runway, and each home has its own airplane hangar.

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

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

Running under an entire mountain, the longest highway tunnel in North America is kept fresh using portal fans and jet fans.

The ruins of a town wiped out by the second-largest earthquake in recorded history.

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

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

This volcanically volatile island town is home to an abandoned series of tunnels left by the Japanese during WWII.

Two World War II aircraft lie within the jungle around this abandoned runway.

This tiny uninhabited islet off the coast of Norfolk Island was formed by blowing sand from nearby dunes.

An isolated dive site teeming with cnidarians.

Where hundreds of Japanese civilians committed suicide to avoid being captured by American soldiers during WWII.

A gorgeous gem on the ocean.