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

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

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

Known as the “Official Greeter of Juneau,” this dog still welcomes ships and their passengers to Alaska.

A whale of a public art display towers atop Juneau's cruise ship dock.

A historic area for shopping and dining in Ketchikan's former red-light district.

The oldest original lighthouse in Alaska that was born out of a tragic shipwreck.

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

This "Alaska-style" billboard is over 100 years old.

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

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

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

A monument commemorating the role of Alaska's native Tlingit guides in the Klondike Gold Rush.

Not-so-fearsome tiny trolls live under this wooden train trestle in Portland.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

The awe-inspiring ship from the golden era of cruising has an incomparable history and a reputation as one of the world’s most haunted places.

A permanent open-air exhibition of stunning, and inherently American, public art.

"Polynesia on the Plains."

A little-visited ghost town state park offers a glimpse into Montana’s "Silver Queen."

A metal menagerie fills the yard of this museum and gallery, the work of Montana artist Bill Ohrmann.

This giant meditative chakra sits peacefully in the Flathead Valley of western Montana.

This landmark church at the Flathead Reservation mission features 58 ceiling and wall frescoes painted by the mission's cook.

Montana’s first and only Alpine coaster.

A once celebrated industrial wonder now lurks in a quiet corner of Flathead Lake.