Places embeekrais Wants to Go

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

One toy collector's legacy of hundreds of unique items includes the most diverse display of northern indigenous dolls.

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

This remote fort on the Yukon River is a vestige of the wild Alaska gold rush.

The site of one of Japan's very few American occupations during World War II still holds the relics of a roundly disastrous campaign.

At 238 feet above the bottom of a gorge this span is known as the biggest thrill on the road to McCarthy.

Alaska Natives have lived on this tiny isolated island in the Bering Strait for over 5,000 years.

The simple log cabin of a famed loner and naturalist stands preserved as a symbol of the ultimate DIY lifestyle.

An auroral research program that superheats the ionosphere.

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

Every summer, the Mendenhall River greenbelt comes alive with an explosion of magenta flowers.

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.

Siberian husky that delivered a life-saving antitoxin.

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

Often mistaken for an office building, inside this venue is an amazing collection of Native Alaskan art.

The easternmost town in Alaska can only be accessed from Canada.

During the summer, surfers in Alaska take advantage of this inlet’s unusual water patterns.

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

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

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

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

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

A historic freight system that found the true gold rush is in tourism.