Places ashleymlawrence Wants to Go

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

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

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.

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

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

An Alaska livestock farm devotes itself to harvesting wool from creatures that once ran with mammoths and sabertooth tigers.

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

While not recognized by Guinness, this chocolate waterfall is likely to be the world's largest.

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

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

Gorgeous cave resemble a winter wonderland.

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

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

A collection of haunted objects and macabre oddities under one roof.

This hospital fell into ruins after failing to act as the advocate for the mentally ill it was designed to be.

Known as the "Grand Lady of Jersey City,” the city's first racially-integrated hotel was owned by a preacher who was, depending on who you ask, a cult leader, civil rights pioneer, or the manifestation of God.

The real-life ‘Severance’ office building.

A condo complex once housed a boarding school with the 24th U.S. Vice President among its notable alumni.

The C. A. Nothnagle Log House stands as the oldest surviving log cabin in the United States, offering a remarkable glimpse into America's colonial past.

This water tower commemorates the invention of the transistor on this site in 1947.

This haunting monument honors the victims of 9/11.

Home of the golf club used by Alan Shepard on the moon, and more artifacts from the sport's history.

A cemetery that holds graves for the forgotten children of a burned orphanage.