This often-overlooked canyon dazzles and intrigues with its many layers of colors, shapes and odd formations.

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

This abandoned mine offers a glimpse at what life was like for those who came to Alaska seeking Gold Rush riches.

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

Four-story concrete hotel never opened to customers.

A copy of the famous bus used during the filming of 'Into the Wild' is on display at an Alaska brewery.

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

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

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

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

Running under an entire mountain, the longest highway tunnel in North America is kept fresh using portal fans and jet fans.

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

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

Clean, cold drinking water flows from a nondescript pipe in a roadside rock face.

A suburban street in Anchorage doubles as a runway, and each home has its own airplane hangar.

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

At 238 feet above the bottom of a gorge this span is known as the biggest thrill on the road to McCarthy.

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

The only house built with a turret, crenellations, and a moat in Palmer, Alaska.

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

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

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

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

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