Places acrig Wants to Go

11,500 year old little girl found buried in an ancient fire pit.

Four-story concrete hotel never opened to customers.

This Alaskan town appoints the general store's resident feline as honorary mayor.

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

Siberian husky that delivered a life-saving antitoxin.

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

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

This Alaska library may be the only one in the country that allows you to check out pieces of taxidermy.

Pay homage to a preeminent matriarch, and the native Dena’ina people, at this sculpture installation in Anchorage.

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

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.

Clean, cold drinking water flows from a nondescript pipe in a roadside rock face.

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

This WWII-era military installation once held an entire city within its walls - now, its walls are falling down.

The simple log cabin of a famed loner and naturalist stands preserved as a symbol of the ultimate DIY lifestyle.

One of Alaska's most significant ancient sites, spanning millennia and cultures, is right under the feet of some famously fat bears.

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

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

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

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

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

Siberian whale bones stand as cairns marking location of an ancient butcher yard.

An ancient temple of Lord Shiva was rediscovered in an excavation in 2003.