Places Hheeaatthh Wants to Go

An island said to shake with the current.

This towering totem holds the title for the tallest in the world but only according to some.

The stunning remnants of this wreck emerge from an otherworldly backdrop of rainforests.

This revered mutant tree was felled in an act of ecoterrorism leaving a legacy of myth and possibly murder.

Hauntingly beautiful totem poles left by the Haida.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A museum devoted entirely to hammers has more than 1,400 items on display dating back to the Romans.

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

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

Gorgeous cave resemble a winter wonderland.

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

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

Four-story concrete hotel never opened to customers.

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.

Massive mounds of golden sand look like a desert landscape randomly plopped in an Arctic forest.

Siberian whale bones stand as cairns marking location of an ancient butcher yard.