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Some ruins of Portage.

Whittier, Alaska

Portage Ghost Town

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

Our Sun, looking radiant in Alaska

Anchorage, Alaska

Anchorage Light Speed Planet Walk

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

Turnagain Arm bore tide.

Anchorage, Alaska

Turnagain Arm Bore Tide

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

The Whittier entrance.

Whittier, Alaska

Anton Anderson Memorial Tunnel

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

The Salty Dawg Saloon's "Lighthouse".

Homer, Alaska

Salty Dawg Saloon

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

Kiska Island

Aleutians West, Alaska

Kiska Island

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

Adak Forest

Adak, Alaska

Adak "National Forest"

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

Neighborhood Airplane Hangars

Anchorage, Alaska

Neighborhood Airplane Hangars

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

Naa Kahidi Theatre Sealaska Heritage Institute

Juneau, Alaska

Sealaska Heritage Institute

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

The village of Ignaluk.

Diomede, Alaska

Little Diomede Island

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

Wizard of Oz in metal.

Juneau, Alaska

Wizard of Oz Metal Statues

On top of a sheet metal business in Juneau stand nearly a dozen charming Wizard of Oz statues.

Holy Resurrection Russian Orthodox Cathedral

Kodiak, Alaska

St. Herman's Reliquary

The remains of the first saint from Alaska in the Russian Orthodox Church.

Water flows from the sticker covered pipe.

Anchorage, Alaska

Beluga Point Fresh Water Spring

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

A view of City Hall from below. (Photo:

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Philadelphia City Hall

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

Built in Philadelphia in 1808 by the Spark family.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Sparks Shot Tower

One of the oldest of its kind.

The Irish Memorial at Penn's Landing

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

The Irish Memorial at Penn's Landing

An Irish Memorial commemorating those who perished due to potato blight.

Philbert the Pig

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Philbert the Pig

This beloved marketplace mascot poops money and grants good luck.

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