Places emiliejayne Wants to Go

Stunning examples of Russia's 18th-century wooden architecture.

A long-disputed island that Denmark and Canada claim by periodically alternating flags and bottles of liquor.

The remote graves mark the mysterious deaths of four 19th century explorers.

The closest thing to Mars on Earth.

1% of Greenland's entire population used to live in this single building, which is now slated for demolition.

Small Island off the coast of Greenland.

Puffin enthusiasts flock to Europe's largest seabird cliff, which over one million birds call home.

The 3.8 billion-year-old rock proves that tectonic plates may have been shifting longer than we thought.

A Cold War atomic camp buried under the ice is now emerging because of global warming.

This remote research station sits amid the second-largest ice sheet on the planet.

This ghostly Alaska village still clings to a steep cliffside despite having been abandoned for over 50 years.

Breathtakingly blue walls shimmer inside the "Glacier Behind the Town."

A rare kind of blue bear can be found chiefly in the national park that shares their name.

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

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

Gorgeous cave resemble a winter wonderland.

A famed drink seasoned with an amputated toe, now on its tenth digit.

Internationally recognized group that works to protect the wolf and educate the public about its plight.

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

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

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

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

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

One of the largest Buddhist stupas in the world keeps an eye out in every direction.