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A few times a day, you can see an animatronic cowboy shoot-out.

This underground power plant looks more like a super-villian's lair than a public work.

These hellish-looking cliffs in the Canadian Arctic have been burning for centuries.

This greenhouse was once a hockey arena.

Roadside collection of 65,000 signs.

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

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

The first Russian Orthodox church in North America and an Alaskan landmark.

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.

This general store is a one-stop-shop for workers at the Prudhoe Bay oil field.

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

This gravelly, dangerous highway is the only road in the United States that leads to the Arctic Ocean.

The northernmost truck stop in the United States.

The northernmost international land border crossing in the United States.

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

A morbid gateway to an Alaska town prides itself on the hunting history it represents.

Four-story concrete hotel never opened to customers.

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

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

See a full-scale whale skeleton and experience the captivating culture of Alaska’s Native people at this heritage center in east Anchorage.

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

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

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