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

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

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.

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.

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

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

This WWII-era military installation once held an entire city within its walls - now, its walls are falling down.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Four-story concrete hotel never opened to customers.

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

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

Gorgeous cave resemble a winter wonderland.

This frozen tunnel in central Alaska is both an engineering feat and a valuable climate classroom.

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

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