This shrine to the patron saint of Alaska sits on a small tidal island and was built from the land’s own beach stones.

Research missiles and rainbow auroras at the world's largest land-based rocket range.

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

During the summer, surfers in Alaska take advantage of this inlet’s unusual water patterns.

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

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

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

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

North America's first frozen mummified remains of an ice age steppe bison, the 36,000 year-old mummy named "Blue Babe."

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

A rare kind of blue bear can be found chiefly in the national park that shares their name.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

Four-story concrete hotel never opened to customers.

Gorgeous cave resemble a winter wonderland.

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