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The monument.

Fairbanks, Alaska

Lend-Lease Monument

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

Mount Denali

Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska

Denali

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

Burial Spirit Houses

Anchorage, Alaska

Burial Spirit Houses

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

Togo the Wonder Dog. (Creative Commons)

Wasilla, Alaska

Togo the Wonder Dog

Siberian husky that delivered a life-saving antitoxin.

Neighborhood Airplane Hangars

Anchorage, Alaska

Neighborhood Airplane Hangars

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

Our Sun, looking radiant in Alaska

Anchorage, Alaska

Anchorage Light Speed Planet Walk

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

Merging onto Alaska 1 from a scenic overlook.

Anchorage, Alaska

The Seward Highway

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

The World's Largest Chocolate Waterfall

Anchorage, Alaska

Worlds Largest Chocolate Waterfall

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

Castle House

Palmer, Alaska

Castle House

The only house built with a turret, crenellations, and a moat in Palmer, Alaska.

Musk Ox Farm

Palmer, Alaska

Musk Ox Farm

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

Mukluk Land

Tok, Alaska

Mukluk Land

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

Carcross Desert

Carcross, Yukon

Carcross Desert

This tiny square mile of Canadian sand was once considered the world's smallest desert.

Vintage image of the log skyscraper

Whitehorse, Yukon

Log Skyscrapers of Whitehorse

When the big city meets the edge of the frontier, log skyscrapers are born.

The World's Largest Weathervane, a DC-3

Whitehorse, Yukon

The World's Largest Weathervane, a DC-3

This decommissioned DC-3 now forever points into the oncoming wind.

A lane of signs in the forest

Watson Lake, Yukon

Watson Lake Sign Post Forest

Roadside collection of 65,000 signs.

Operation Habbakuk at Patricia Lake

Jasper, Alberta

Operation Habbakuk at Patricia Lake

The site of a strange super top-secret military experiment during WWII on a remote Canadian lake.

Columbia Icefield

Alberta

Columbia Icefield

A surviving remnant of the thick ice mass that once mantled most of Western Canada's mountains.

Columbia Icefield Skywalk

Jasper, Alberta

Columbia Icefield Skywalk

With a floor made of thick glass, this observation deck offers a full view of Sunwapta Valley's mountains and rivers.

A sign marks the 1925 edge of Athabasca Glacier

Jasper, Alberta

Athabasca Glacier

This natural wonder is disappearing at an alarming rate.

The tallest one on the right side is Eisenhower Tower

Eldon, Alberta

Eisenhower Tower

Canada’s surprisingly controversial monument to Dwight Eisenhower.

Yoho National Park

Field, British Columbia

Yoho National Park

Fossils, railroads, and waterfalls!

Lake Minnewanka Underwater Ghost Town

Improvement District No. 9, Alberta

Lake Minnewanka Underwater Ghost Town

The only way to visit this old resort hotel is with scuba gear.

Cave and Basin National Historic Site in Banff National Park.

Banff, Alberta

Cave and Basin National Historic Site

The natural hot spring that was integral to the creation of Canada's first national park.

Banff Springs Hotel

Banff, Alberta

Banff Springs Hotel

Few other hotels can rival the grandeur of the Castle in the Rockies.

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