The northernmost truck stop in the United States.

The only house built with a turret, crenellations, and a moat in Palmer, Alaska.

The stickered marker pinpoints where the only maintained road in the United States crosses into the polar region.

On top of a sheet metal business in Juneau stand nearly a dozen charming Wizard of Oz statues.

The northernmost international land border crossing in the United States.

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

At 238 feet above the bottom of a gorge this span is known as the biggest thrill on the road to McCarthy.

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

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

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

This junkyard made over as a theme park is the "Most Alaskan place in Alaska."

The simple log cabin of a famed loner and naturalist stands preserved as a symbol of the ultimate DIY lifestyle.

A giant poultry statue immortalizes one of Alaska's more humorous town names.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Gorgeous cave resemble a winter wonderland.

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