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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 remains of the first saint from Alaska in the Russian Orthodox Church.

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

Gorgeous cave resemble a winter wonderland.

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

An auroral research program that superheats the ionosphere.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

One woman's dream became a train hotel in her backyard.

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

The largest collection of ornamental hair combs on the planet.