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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This ghostly Alaska village still clings to a steep cliffside despite having been abandoned for over 50 years.

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

Massive mounds of golden sand look like a desert landscape randomly plopped in an Arctic forest.

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

The ruins of this Alaska gold mine form a gorgeous ghost town.

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

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

Four-story concrete hotel never opened to customers.

Gorgeous cave resemble a winter wonderland.

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

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

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

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

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

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