Known as the “Official Greeter of Juneau,” this dog still welcomes ships and their passengers to Alaska.

A suburban street in Anchorage doubles as a runway, and each home has its own airplane hangar.

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

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

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

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

An auroral research program that superheats the ionosphere.

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

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

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 Alaska livestock farm devotes itself to harvesting wool from creatures that once ran with mammoths and sabertooth tigers.

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

This small city where almost everyone lives in the same building can only be reached via North America's longest tunnel.

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

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.

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

Clean, cold drinking water flows from a nondescript pipe in a roadside rock face.

Considered by many to be one of the most dangerous highways in Alaska.

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

During the summer, surfers in Alaska take advantage of this inlet’s unusual water patterns.

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