Places megankass Wants to Go

This Alaska library may be the only one in the country that allows you to check out pieces of taxidermy.

The northernmost international land border crossing in the United States.

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

Alaska Natives have lived on this tiny isolated island in the Bering Strait for over 5,000 years.

The sculpture's largest spire points directly toward the North Star.

A tiny wilderness cemetery commemorates the deadliest episode of the Klondike Gold Rush.

Often mistaken for an office building, inside this venue is an amazing collection of Native Alaskan art.

America's smallest "national forest" has only 33 trees.

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

This junkyard made over as a theme park is the "Most Alaskan place in Alaska."

The facade of this relic from the Klondike gold rush is decorated with over 8,800 pieces of driftwood.

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

Running under an entire mountain, the longest highway tunnel in North America is kept fresh using portal fans and jet fans.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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