The "Gateway to the Arctic" connects Barrow's indigenous population with the sea and its traditional industry: whaling.

Commemorating the lives of a renowned humorist and a famed aviator who died in a plane crash in northern Alaska.

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

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

This small city where almost everyone lives in the same building can only be reached via North America's longest tunnel.

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

This WWII-era military installation once held an entire city within its walls - now, its walls are falling down.

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

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

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

Permanent exhibit reminds visitors of the Exxon Valdez.

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

A lasting testament to the Klondike Gold Rush.

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

The northernmost international land border crossing in the United States.

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

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

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

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

Four-story concrete hotel never opened to customers.

A copy of the famous bus used during the filming of 'Into the Wild' is on display at an Alaska brewery.

Mind-blowing carvings and fantasy ice scenes grace the largest year-round ice environment in the world.

A trading post in the North Pole where children send letters.

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