A small maritime town's own way of memorializing the local lives spent at sea.

Once the center of Gold Rush mania, now the starting point for the Yukon Quest sled dog race.

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

The beginning of the historic Iditarod Trail connecting the Alaskan cities of Seward and Nome.

An icy behemoth that towers over you with a blue ice cave in the winter and a roaring creek in the summer.

A quirky roadside sign was the subject of a years-long legal standoff over highway right-of-way clearances. 

Tour a Cold War-era U.S. military missile launch site in Anchorage.

The now-serene site of the largest earthquake ever recorded in North America.

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

This mile marker stands at the unofficial end of a highway built to defend the United States from a Japanese invasion during World War II.

See a full-scale whale skeleton and experience the captivating culture of Alaska’s Native people at this heritage center in east Anchorage.

A hulking remnant of Alaska's industrial gold mining boom in the 1920s.

This super-sized statue is the only public memorial to the deal that ended America's neutrality during World War II.

Considered by many to be one of the most dangerous highways in Alaska.

Open day and night, a church with three pews and Bibles.

A suburban street in Anchorage doubles as a runway, and each home has its own airplane hangar.

An auroral research program that superheats the ionosphere.

A morbid gateway to an Alaska town prides itself on the hunting history it represents.

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

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

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.

Running under an entire mountain, the longest highway tunnel in North America is kept fresh using portal fans and jet fans.

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