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.

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

Don't be a grizzly man. Get personal with Alaska's wild bears from the safety of this conservationist camp.

Internationally recognized group that works to protect the wolf and educate the public about its plight.

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

Massive mounds of golden sand look like a desert landscape randomly plopped in an Arctic forest.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This ghostly Alaska village still clings to a steep cliffside despite having been abandoned for over 50 years.

While not recognized by Guinness, this chocolate waterfall is likely to be the world's largest.

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

An auroral research program that superheats the ionosphere.

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

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

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

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

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."