This scenic waterfront swimming pool is the longest salt water pool in North America.

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

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

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

On top of a sheet metal business in Juneau stand nearly a dozen charming Wizard of Oz statues.

A tiny wilderness cemetery commemorates the deadliest episode of the Klondike Gold Rush.

This mouldering abandoned mental hospital was once a center for progressive healing.

This former Masonic hall has been turned into an art project that uses even more metaphysical iconography.

Second largest wastewater treatment plant in the country.

This Gothic castle was inspired by Erik the Red's Viking residence at Brattahlid in Greenland.

Alaska Natives have lived on this tiny isolated island in the Bering Strait for over 5,000 years.

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

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

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

This free series of exhibitions honors the fascinating history of the region.

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

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

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

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

Four-story concrete hotel never opened to customers.

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.

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

Tour a Cold War-era U.S. military missile launch site in Anchorage.