The northernmost truck stop in the United States.

The cultural center preserves the history of the Tlingit tribe, who have lived in this Alaska village for more than 10,000 years.

Often mistaken for an office building, inside this venue is an amazing collection of Native Alaskan art.

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

One of two side-by-side totem pole parks dedicated to educating visitors on Tlingit history and culture.

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

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

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

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

Running under an entire mountain, the longest highway tunnel in North America is kept fresh using portal fans and jet fans.

A high school astronomy enthusiast designed this model of our solar system to be traversed on foot.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Gorgeous cave resemble a winter wonderland.

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

The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.