Places slecnave Wants to Go

This shrine to the patron saint of Alaska sits on a small tidal island and was built from the land’s own beach stones.

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

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

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

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

North America's first frozen mummified remains of an ice age steppe bison, the 36,000 year-old mummy named "Blue Babe."

The "Gateway to the Arctic" connects Barrow's indigenous population with the sea and its traditional industry: whaling.

An abandoned aircraft sits submerged in a lake in the Alaska wilderness.

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

This historic collection of Native Alaskan artifacts was resurrected through a partnership between the WPA and tribal artisans.

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

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

This ghostly Alaska village still clings to a steep cliffside despite having been abandoned for over 50 years.

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.

The ghostly remains of what was once the world's richest copper mine.

Gorgeous cave resemble a winter wonderland.

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

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

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

Remains of the lost church hide beneath this Spanish Parliament building.

Inside this church are the alleged remains of the patron saint of lovers, epileptics, and beekeepers.

A reproduction of the famous prehistoric cave paintings is hidden underground at the National Archaeological Museum.