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

Known as the “Official Greeter of Juneau,” this dog still welcomes ships and their passengers to Alaska.

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

Impressive artifacts from Juneau's gold mining days fill this mining site-turned-museum.

A sarcastic monument threatens to curse any "idiot" who dares remove it.

The cultural center preserves the history of the Tlingit tribe, who have lived in this Alaska village for more than 10,000 years.

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

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

A morbid gateway to an Alaska town prides itself on the hunting history it represents.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

This historic collection of Native Alaskan artifacts was resurrected through a partnership between the WPA and tribal artisans.

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.

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

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