Places Jqbaker Wants to Go

Every fall this lake mysteriously drains, like a bathtub with the plug pulled out.

Thousand-year-old trees tower within one of the world's only inland temperate rainforests.

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

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

When the big city meets the edge of the frontier, log skyscrapers are born.

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

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

Known as the “Official Greeter of Juneau,” this dog still welcomes ships and their passengers to Alaska.

A whale of a public art display towers atop Juneau's cruise ship dock.

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

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

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

The oldest original lighthouse in Alaska that was born out of a tragic shipwreck.

This tiny square mile of Canadian sand was once considered the world's smallest desert.

A colossal gold-dredging machine from the Klondike mining boom, now open to tours.

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

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

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

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

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

A morbid gateway to an Alaska town prides itself on the hunting history it represents.

North America's first frozen mummified remains of an ice age steppe bison, the 36,000 year-old mummy named "Blue Babe."

An eclectic collection of mathematical items that include puzzles, art, calculating devices, and historical reproductions.

It's a tiny roadside universe of welded folk-art creatures built by one man who turned farm-repair welding into an imaginative anything goes sculpture garden that you stumble upon by accident and walk away remembering.