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The sculpture's largest spire points directly toward the North Star.

Siberian husky that delivered a life-saving antitoxin.

Research missiles and rainbow auroras at the world's largest land-based rocket range.

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

Buy your friend a drink or staple some cash to the wall for the next guy at the Salty Dawg Saloon.

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

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

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

This shrine to the patron saint of Alaska sits on a small tidal island and was built from the land’s own beach stones.

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

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

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

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

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

A historic freight system that found the true gold rush is in tourism.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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