Breathtakingly blue walls shimmer inside the "Glacier Behind the Town."

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

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

This general store is a one-stop-shop for workers at the Prudhoe Bay oil field.

The simple log cabin of a famed loner and naturalist stands preserved as a symbol of the ultimate DIY lifestyle.

The oldest original lighthouse in Alaska that was born out of a tragic shipwreck.

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

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

A museum devoted entirely to hammers has more than 1,400 items on display dating back to the Romans.

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

A monument commemorating the role of Alaska's native Tlingit guides in the Klondike Gold Rush.

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

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

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

This greenhouse was once a hockey arena.

A tiny wilderness cemetery commemorates the deadliest episode of the Klondike Gold Rush.

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

The picturesque remains of an abandoned silver mine slope down to Tagish Lake in the Yukon.

This tiny square mile of Canadian sand was once considered the world's smallest desert.

A mad mystery man who led Canadian mounties on a 150-mile wilderness chase is still buried with his secrets intact.

Open day and night, a church with three pews and Bibles.

A spoke-tacular artwork constructed from recycled bicycle rims.

When the big city meets the edge of the frontier, log skyscrapers are born.

Home to a full cast of the largest woolly mammoth ever recovered in North America.