A hulking remnant of Alaska's industrial gold mining boom in the 1920s.

The northernmost truck stop in the United States.

One toy collector's legacy of hundreds of unique items includes the most diverse display of northern indigenous dolls.

A museum devoted entirely to hammers has more than 1,400 items on display dating back to the Romans.

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

This remote fort on the Yukon River is a vestige of the wild Alaska gold rush.

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

An auroral research program that superheats the ionosphere.

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

The facade of this relic from the Klondike gold rush is decorated with over 8,800 pieces of driftwood.

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

Siberian husky that delivered a life-saving antitoxin.

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

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

Originally a brothel during the Klondike Gold Rush, this bar once used dolls to denote when ladies were working.

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

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

This vintage train once gave new meaning to “swimming upstream.”

Mining town from the late 1890s, once home to Calamity Jane.

Derelict buildings are all that remain of a complex at the site of one of the worst mining disasters in Montana history.

Native Americans built this circle of stones, which was used to predict astronomical events.

This beautiful ancient site is dotted with perforated sandstone pillars considered sacred by some Native American groups.

The crumbling structure is a rare surviving relic of the area's bygone mining industry.

An antique Beechcraft airplane serves as a giant windsock for people driving through the blustery open country of eastern Wyoming.