In the middle of the Alaskan wilderness, lies a train trestle to nowhere.

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

This often-overlooked canyon dazzles and intrigues with its many layers of colors, shapes and odd formations.

Four-story concrete hotel never opened to customers.

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

Permanent exhibit reminds visitors of the Exxon Valdez.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

See a full-scale whale skeleton and experience the captivating culture of Alaska’s Native people at this heritage center in east Anchorage.

A suburban street in Anchorage doubles as a runway, and each home has its own airplane hangar.

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

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

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

Siberian husky that delivered a life-saving antitoxin.

The ghostly remains of what was once the world's richest copper mine.

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

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

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