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

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

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

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

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

America's smallest "national forest" has only 33 trees.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A historic freight system that found the true gold rush is in tourism.

A classic gold rush hotel can be expected to pick up some ghosts along the way, and the Golden North is no exception.

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

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

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.

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

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