Whittier, Alaska
Whittier, Alaska
This small city where almost everyone lives in the same building can only be reached via North America's longest tunnel.
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Whittier, Alaska
This small city where almost everyone lives in the same building can only be reached via North America's longest tunnel.
Whittier, Alaska
Running under an entire mountain, the longest highway tunnel in North America is kept fresh using portal fans and jet fans.
Whittier, Alaska
The ruins of a town wiped out by the second-largest earthquake in recorded history.
Anchorage, Alaska
During the summer, surfers in Alaska take advantage of this inlet’s unusual water patterns.
Anchorage, Alaska
While not recognized by Guinness, this chocolate waterfall is likely to be the world's largest.
Palmer, Alaska
An Alaska livestock farm devotes itself to harvesting wool from creatures that once ran with mammoths and sabertooth tigers.
Wasilla, Alaska
Siberian husky that delivered a life-saving antitoxin.
Cantwell, Alaska
Four-story concrete hotel never opened to customers.
Eagle, Alaska
The northernmost international land border crossing in the United States.
Chicken, Alaska
A giant poultry statue immortalizes one of Alaska's more humorous town names.
Tok, Alaska
This junkyard made over as a theme park is the "Most Alaskan place in Alaska."
Fairbanks, Alaska
This super-sized statue is the only public memorial to the deal that ended America's neutrality during World War II.
Fairbanks, Alaska
North America's first frozen mummified remains of an ice age steppe bison, the 36,000 year-old mummy named "Blue Babe."
North Pole, Alaska
A trading post in the North Pole where children send letters.
Fairbanks, Alaska
Research missiles and rainbow auroras at the world's largest land-based rocket range.
Fairbanks, Alaska
Mind-blowing carvings and fantasy ice scenes grace the largest year-round ice environment in the world.
Alaska
The stickered marker pinpoints where the only maintained road in the United States crosses into the polar region.
Coldfoot, Alaska
The northernmost truck stop in the United States.
Barrow, Alaska
The "Gateway to the Arctic" connects Barrow's indigenous population with the sea and its traditional industry: whaling.
Jaipur, India
The beautiful 16th-century stepwell lies in the shadow of a famous fortress.
Jaipur, India
This opulent 16th-century Maharaja’s palace is a unique mix of Hindu and Muslim designs.
Balaghat, India
This reserve is the only place in the world where you can see the Barasingha swamp deer in the wild.
Jaipur, India
More than half of this Indian palace is drowned but it looks all the more spectacular for it.
Kathmandu, Nepal
This historic square in Nepal is home to temples dating back to the third century.