Skagway, Alaska
Arctic Brotherhood Hall
The facade of this relic from the Klondike gold rush is decorated with over 8,800 pieces of driftwood.
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Skagway, Alaska
The facade of this relic from the Klondike gold rush is decorated with over 8,800 pieces of driftwood.
Whittier, Alaska
Running under an entire mountain, the longest highway tunnel in North America is kept fresh using portal fans and jet fans.
Whittier, Alaska
The ruins of a town wiped out by the second-largest earthquake in recorded history.
Skagway, Alaska
A historic freight system that found the true gold rush is in tourism.
Northwest Arctic, Alaska
Massive mounds of golden sand look like a desert landscape randomly plopped in an Arctic forest.
Ketchikan, Alaska
This historic collection of Native Alaskan artifacts was resurrected through a partnership between the WPA and tribal artisans.
North Pole, Alaska
An abandoned aircraft sits submerged in a lake in the Alaska wilderness.
Nome, Alaska
This ghostly Alaska village still clings to a steep cliffside despite having been abandoned for over 50 years.
Fairbanks, Alaska
One woman's dream became a train hotel in her backyard.
Juneau, Alaska
The ruins of this Alaska gold mine form a gorgeous ghost town.
Juneau, Alaska
A rare chance to get up close and personal with a 13-mile ribbon of ice near downtown Juneau.
North Pole, Alaska
A trading post in the North Pole where children send letters.
Fairbanks, Alaska
This frozen tunnel in central Alaska is both an engineering feat and a valuable climate classroom.
Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska
The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.
Talkeetna, Alaska
This whimsical stacked cabin looks like something out of a children's book.
Fairbanks, Alaska
Mind-blowing carvings and fantasy ice scenes grace the largest year-round ice environment in the world.
Juneau, Alaska
Breathtakingly blue walls shimmer inside the "Glacier Behind the Town."
Denver, Colorado
Curios, scientific antiques, oddities for sale.
Keyes, Colorado
This marker identifies the location where three states converge.
Orchard, Colorado
In the early 1900s, hundreds of Black Americans found opportunity in this now-abandoned rural community.
Trinidad, Colorado
This small piece of railroad history sits behind the parking lot of a chain grocery store.
Del Norte, Colorado
A mural of the Virgin of Guadalupe painted on the rock wall by canyon's religious namesake.
Gateway, Colorado
A remote sandstone plateau named for a legendary cattle rustler.
Marble, Colorado
The site of a defunct mill, that once supplied marble for the construction of the Lincoln Memorial.