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

Open day and night, a church with three pews and Bibles.

This gravelly, dangerous highway is the only road in the United States that leads to the Arctic Ocean.

11,500 year old little girl found buried in an ancient fire pit.

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

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

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

An auroral research program that superheats the ionosphere.

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

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

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

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

An abandoned aircraft sits submerged in a lake in the Alaska wilderness.

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

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

A once-glowing grotto at the bottom of Waikapalae Wet Cave.

What remains of the summer palace of King Kamehameha III.

A Hawaiian stairway to heaven—that you can't climb.

This monument built by Japanese American immigrants spent decades underground.

A burial ground for workers at one of Hawai'i's largest sugarcane producers that laid buried for decades.

Hidden behind a YMCA stands the remains of a ceremonial site that dates back hundreds of years, whose ground is still considered sacred to many Hawaiians.

Hawai'i's oldest wooden house was shipped around Cape Horn from Boston in 1820.

A 1940's shrine dedicated to drowned fishermen on the outskirts of Honolulu.