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

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

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

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

This popular fishing spot at the outflow of a 4.5-mile long hydroelectric tunnel sports a jetty literally made out of classic cars.

This Alaskan town appoints the general store's resident feline as honorary mayor.

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

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

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

A trading post in the North Pole where children send letters.

Pay homage to a preeminent matriarch, and the native Dena’ina people, at this sculpture installation in Anchorage.

While not recognized by Guinness, this chocolate waterfall is likely to be the world's largest.

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

The decorations were inspired by an unlikely missing treasure.

This inanimate goat created by the "welding nun" has been helping to clean up the city of Spokane for more than 40 years.

This playground sculpture of an icon from the past is dedicated to the children of the future.

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

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

Siberian husky that delivered a life-saving antitoxin.

The northernmost truck stop in the United States.

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

This mile marker stands at the unofficial end of a highway built to defend the United States from a Japanese invasion during World War II.

This super-sized statue is the only public memorial to the deal that ended America's neutrality during World War II.

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