Places Britt Todd Wants to Go

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

A spoke-tacular artwork constructed from recycled bicycle rims.

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

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

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

The resilient spirit of this remote mining town burns bright in its eclectic memorabilia.

The northernmost truck stop in the United States.

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

A skeletal collection of former nautical mainstays.

A famed drink seasoned with an amputated toe, now on its tenth digit.

A lasting testament to the Klondike Gold Rush.

This remote fort on the Yukon River is a vestige of the wild Alaska gold rush.

The northernmost international land border crossing in the United States.

A giant poultry statue immortalizes one of Alaska's more humorous town names.

Gorgeous cave resemble a winter wonderland.

Research missiles and rainbow auroras at the world's largest land-based rocket range.

A sarcastic monument threatens to curse any "idiot" who dares remove it.

This super-sized statue is the only public memorial to the deal that ended America's neutrality during World War II.

One woman's dream became a train hotel in her backyard.

11,500 year old little girl found buried in an ancient fire pit.

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.

An auroral research program that superheats the ionosphere.

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