Places cscolvett Wants to Go

A former taxidermist has turned his old shop into a folk art mecca.

A wealth of local folk art, antiques, and curios, without ever leaving your car.

This natural wonder drops 16 stories straight down through rare flora and streaming waterfalls.

Clean, cold drinking water flows from a nondescript pipe in a roadside rock face.

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

The cultural center preserves the history of the Tlingit tribe, who have lived in this Alaska village for more than 10,000 years.

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

A sarcastic monument threatens to curse any "idiot" who dares remove it.

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

One of two side-by-side totem pole parks dedicated to educating visitors on Tlingit history and culture.

A tiny wilderness cemetery commemorates the deadliest episode of the Klondike Gold Rush.

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

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

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

The facade of this relic from the Klondike gold rush is decorated with over 8,800 pieces of driftwood.

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.

This shrine to the patron saint of Alaska sits on a small tidal island and was built from the land’s own beach stones.

Don't be a grizzly man. Get personal with Alaska's wild bears from the safety of this conservationist camp.

Low tide reveals 8,000-year-old rock carvings in Southern Alaska.

North America's first frozen mummified remains of an ice age steppe bison, the 36,000 year-old mummy named "Blue Babe."

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

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

An abandoned aircraft sits submerged in a lake in the Alaska wilderness.