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Originally a brothel during the Klondike Gold Rush, this bar once used dolls to denote when ladies were working.

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

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

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

A classic gold rush hotel can be expected to pick up some ghosts along the way, and the Golden North is no exception.

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

This historic collection of Native Alaskan artifacts was resurrected through a partnership between the WPA and tribal artisans.

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

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

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

This ghostly Alaska village still clings to a steep cliffside despite having been abandoned for over 50 years.

This small city where almost everyone lives in the same building can only be reached via North America's longest tunnel.

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

The ruins of this Alaska gold mine form a gorgeous ghost town.

Four-story concrete hotel never opened to customers.

Colorful boxes placed over the dead are left to rot and crumble.

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

Gorgeous cave resemble a winter wonderland.

This frozen tunnel in central Alaska is both an engineering feat and a valuable climate classroom.

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

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

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

Mind-blowing carvings and fantasy ice scenes grace the largest year-round ice environment in the world.

This whimsical stacked cabin looks like something out of a children's book.