Places rmcmacki Wants to Go

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.

The simple log cabin of a famed loner and naturalist stands preserved as a symbol of the ultimate DIY lifestyle.

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.

An auroral research program that superheats the ionosphere.

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

Buy your friend a drink or staple some cash to the wall for the next guy at the Salty Dawg Saloon.

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.

The easternmost town in Alaska can only be accessed from Canada.

The ruins of a town wiped out by the second-largest earthquake in recorded history.

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

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.

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

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

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

One woman's dream became a train hotel in her backyard.

The ruins of this Alaska gold mine form a gorgeous ghost town.

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

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

Four-story concrete hotel never opened to customers.

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