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

A tiny wilderness cemetery commemorates the deadliest episode of the Klondike Gold Rush.

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

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

The picturesque remains of an abandoned silver mine slope down to Tagish Lake in the Yukon.

Colorful boxes placed over the dead are left to rot and crumble.

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

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

This whimsical stacked cabin looks like something out of a children's book.

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

The collection includes seven one-of-a-kind automobiles, vintage fashion, and more.

One woman's dream became a train hotel in her backyard.

A trading post in the North Pole where children send letters.

Mind-blowing carvings and fantasy ice scenes grace the largest year-round ice environment in the world.

Gorgeous cave resemble a winter wonderland.

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

The ghostly remains of what was once the world's richest copper mine.

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

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

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

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

The remains of the first saint from Alaska in the Russian Orthodox Church.

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