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

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

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

The stickered marker pinpoints where the only maintained road in the United States crosses into the polar region.

The northernmost truck stop in the United States.

This general store is a one-stop-shop for workers at the Prudhoe Bay oil field.

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

This decommissioned DC-3 now forever points into the oncoming wind.

Home to a full cast of the largest woolly mammoth ever recovered in North America. 

The remains of a Canadian train crash are now mouldering beneath layers of rust and graffiti.

An abandoned logging settlement nestled in the woods near a popular ski town.

Roadside collection of 65,000 signs.

Site of the world's largest nuclear explosion.

In the northernmost city in the world, it's illegal to be buried because it’s too cold for bodies to decompose.

This Norwegian satellite station provides ground services to more satellites than any other facility in the world.

Thousands of birds nest in the cliffs while arctic foxes prowl below.

This Arctic mining town is home to a cat that's spent years masquerading as a fox.

This abandoned mining village was predicted to resist decay longer than any other modern human settlement.

These circular ruins are all that remain of a 17th-century Arctic whaling outpost.

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

The third-largest island in Canada is one of the remotest places on Earth.

The world's northernmost flowers cling tenuously to life on desolate Kaffeklubben Island.

The world's northernmost brewery uses water from a 2,000-year-old glacier to create its beer.

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.