A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

This gorgeous beach hides behind two headlands in Oregon's Ecola State Park.

Where Nor'easters go to die.

Known as the “Official Greeter of Juneau,” this dog still welcomes ships and their passengers to Alaska.

A whale of a public art display towers atop Juneau's cruise ship dock.

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

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

Siberian husky that delivered a life-saving antitoxin.

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

This abandoned mine offers a glimpse at what life was like for those who came to Alaska seeking Gold Rush riches.

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

Four-story concrete hotel never opened to customers.

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

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

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

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

Research missiles and rainbow auroras at the world's largest land-based rocket range.

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

The northernmost truck stop in the United States.

This gravelly, dangerous highway is the only road in the United States that leads to the Arctic Ocean.

This general store is a one-stop-shop for workers at the Prudhoe Bay oil field.

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

America's smallest "national forest" has only 33 trees.

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