Places acrig Wants to Go

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

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

A 30-mile-long glacially-carved canyon leads to a massive pair of glaciers.

Low tide reveals 8,000-year-old rock carvings in Southern Alaska.

The easternmost town in Alaska can only be accessed from Canada.

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

Hauntingly beautiful totem poles left by the Haida.

The stunning remnants of this wreck emerge from an otherworldly backdrop of rainforests.

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

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

America's smallest "national forest" has only 33 trees.

The northernmost international land border crossing in the United States.

This remote fort on the Yukon River is a vestige of the wild Alaska gold rush.

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

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

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

Gorgeous cave resemble a winter wonderland.

Permanent exhibit reminds visitors of the Exxon Valdez.

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

This free series of exhibitions honors the fascinating history of the region.

North America's first frozen mummified remains of an ice age steppe bison, the 36,000 year-old mummy named "Blue Babe."

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

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

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