Places GRH Wants to Go

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

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

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

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

Siberian husky that delivered a life-saving antitoxin.

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

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

An auroral research program that superheats the ionosphere.

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

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

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

A classic gold rush hotel can be expected to pick up some ghosts along the way, and the Golden North is no exception.

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

While not recognized by Guinness, this chocolate waterfall is likely to be the world's largest.

This historic collection of Native Alaskan artifacts was resurrected through a partnership between the WPA and tribal artisans.

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

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

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

Four-story concrete hotel never opened to customers.

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

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

This frozen tunnel in central Alaska is both an engineering feat and a valuable climate classroom.

Gorgeous cave resemble a winter wonderland.

Upside-down trees serve as natural flower pots in this hanging garden of Alaska.