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

Alaska Natives have lived on this tiny isolated island in the Bering Strait for over 5,000 years.

Often mistaken for an office building, inside this venue is an amazing collection of Native Alaskan art.

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

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

Running under an entire mountain, the longest highway tunnel in North America is kept fresh using portal fans and jet fans.

The ruins of a town wiped out by the second-largest earthquake in recorded history.

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

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

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

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

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

Gorgeous cave resemble a winter wonderland.

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

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

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

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

The perfect place to take a family of giants for a beach vacation.

An exotic reptile facility showcasing some of the rarest, most venomous snakes in the world.

Hidden amid a collection of trails is the site of a tragic crash.

So many migrating birds roost on the bridge, it has a special summer speed limit.

The time thousands of bags of chips washed ashore in the Outer Banks is memorialized in a local museum.

This handcrafted, old western-style town is filled with deserted cars, retired movie props, and other forms of Americana.

A maritime museum holding the remains of Blackbeard's pirate ship.