Places micheleshreeve Wants to Go

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

This WWII-era military installation once held an entire city within its walls - now, its walls are falling down.

A small maritime town's own way of memorializing the local lives spent at sea.

Breathtakingly blue walls shimmer inside the "Glacier Behind the Town."

This "Alaska-style" billboard is over 100 years old.

Once the center of Gold Rush mania, now the starting point for the Yukon Quest sled dog race.

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

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

A copy of the famous bus used during the filming of 'Into the Wild' is on display at an Alaska brewery.

A historic area for shopping and dining in Ketchikan's former red-light district.

One of Alaska's most significant ancient sites, spanning millennia and cultures, is right under the feet of some famously fat bears.

Tour a Cold War-era U.S. military missile launch site in Anchorage.

The beginning of the historic Iditarod Trail connecting the Alaskan cities of Seward and Nome.

An icy behemoth that towers over you with a blue ice cave in the winter and a roaring creek in the summer.

A hulking remnant of Alaska's industrial gold mining boom in the 1920s.

In 1912, this idyllic Alaska landscape was blown apart in the largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century.

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

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

A 30-mile-long glacially-carved canyon leads to a massive pair of glaciers.

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

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.

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

Every summer, the Mendenhall River greenbelt comes alive with an explosion of magenta flowers.