Places Lost Leopards Wants to Go

An Ancestral Puebloan ruin that appears to burst into flames in the sunlight.

Hundreds of drawings left by the land's previous inhabitants remain mysterious.

A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

A home built with marble tombstones from the graves of 2,200 Union soldiers buried in a Virginia cemetery.

Impressive artifacts from Juneau's gold mining days fill this mining site-turned-museum.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Internationally recognized group that works to protect the wolf and educate the public about its plight.

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

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

Low tide reveals 8,000-year-old rock carvings in Southern Alaska.

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

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

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

A skeletal collection of former nautical mainstays.

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

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