11,500 year old little girl found buried in an ancient fire pit.

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

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

This Alaska library may be the only one in the country that allows you to check out pieces of taxidermy.

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

One of two side-by-side totem pole parks dedicated to educating visitors on Tlingit history and culture.

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

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

Siberian husky that delivered a life-saving antitoxin.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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