Places rubysage Wants to Go

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

This tiny square mile of Canadian sand was once considered the world's smallest desert.

A spoke-tacular artwork constructed from recycled bicycle rims.

Don't be a grizzly man. Get personal with Alaska's wild bears from the safety of this conservationist camp.

Gorgeous cave resemble a winter wonderland.

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

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

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

This remote fort on the Yukon River is a vestige of the wild Alaska gold rush.

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

A quirky roadside sign was the subject of a years-long legal standoff over highway right-of-way clearances. 

The northernmost truck stop in the United States.

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

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

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

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

This whimsical stacked cabin looks like something out of a children's book.

Mind-blowing carvings and fantasy ice scenes grace the largest year-round ice environment in the world.

The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.

This frozen tunnel in central Alaska is both an engineering feat and a valuable climate classroom.

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

Four-story concrete hotel never opened to customers.

The collection includes seven one-of-a-kind automobiles, vintage fashion, and more.

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.