The crumbling remains of Juneau's explosives storage site.

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

The oldest original lighthouse in Alaska that was born out of a tragic shipwreck.

Originally a brothel during the Klondike Gold Rush, this bar once used dolls to denote when ladies were working.

When the big city meets the edge of the frontier, log skyscrapers are born.

Home to a full cast of the largest woolly mammoth ever recovered in North America. 

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.

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

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

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

The simple log cabin of a famed loner and naturalist stands preserved as a symbol of the ultimate DIY lifestyle.

Four-story concrete hotel never opened to customers.

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

An auroral research program that superheats the ionosphere.

Permanent exhibit reminds visitors of the Exxon Valdez.

This abandoned mine offers a glimpse at what life was like for those who came to Alaska seeking Gold Rush riches.

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

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

This Alaska library may be the only one in the country that allows you to check out pieces of taxidermy.

Every summer, the Mendenhall River greenbelt comes alive with an explosion of magenta flowers.

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

This decommissioned DC-3 now forever points into the oncoming wind.

The facade of this relic from the Klondike gold rush is decorated with over 8,800 pieces of driftwood.