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

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

One toy collector's legacy of hundreds of unique items includes the most diverse display of northern indigenous dolls.

A whale of a public art display towers atop Juneau's cruise ship dock.

Often mistaken for an office building, inside this venue is an amazing collection of Native Alaskan art.

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

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

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

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

Four-story concrete hotel never opened to customers.

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

Siberian husky that delivered a life-saving antitoxin.

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

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

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.

Clean, cold drinking water flows from a nondescript pipe in a roadside rock face.

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

This historic funicular system combines the old with the new while offering delightful views over the surrounding valley.

It's good luck to be mocked by this monkey.

This Dresden church was purposely rebuilt Protestant after being demolished in World War II.

Ruins of a German Castle on top of a towering stone pillar.

The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."