The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

Impressive artifacts from Juneau's gold mining days fill this mining site-turned-museum.

Permanent exhibit reminds visitors of the Exxon Valdez.

The first Russian Orthodox church in North America and an Alaskan landmark.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

The remnants of a creative early method of wildfire prevention.

America's only nuclear missile silo open to the public.

A wild west cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, provides a window into the Old West.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

Campus tradition says couples who walk beneath this enormous oak will stay together forever.

The world's tallest statue of an American hero.

Legend has it the commander of the defenders drew a fateful line in the dirt with his sword just before the final battle.