Homer, Alaska
Miller Comb Museum
The largest collection of ornamental hair combs on the planet.
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Homer, Alaska
The largest collection of ornamental hair combs on the planet.
Valdez, Alaska
Permanent exhibit reminds visitors of the Exxon Valdez.
Fairbanks, Alaska
11,500 year old little girl found buried in an ancient fire pit.
Eagle, Alaska
The northernmost international land border crossing in the United States.
Juneau, Alaska
Often mistaken for an office building, inside this venue is an amazing collection of Native Alaskan art.
Aleutians West, Alaska
The site of one of Japan's very few American occupations during World War II still holds the relics of a roundly disastrous campaign.
Chitina, Alaska
At 238 feet above the bottom of a gorge this span is known as the biggest thrill on the road to McCarthy.
Lake and Peninsula, Alaska
The simple log cabin of a famed loner and naturalist stands preserved as a symbol of the ultimate DIY lifestyle.
Skagway, Alaska
The facade of this relic from the Klondike gold rush is decorated with over 8,800 pieces of driftwood.
Gakona, Alaska
An auroral research program that superheats the ionosphere.
Chicken, Alaska
A giant poultry statue immortalizes one of Alaska's more humorous town names.
Palmer, Alaska
An Alaska livestock farm devotes itself to harvesting wool from creatures that once ran with mammoths and sabertooth tigers.
Wrangell, Alaska
Low tide reveals 8,000-year-old rock carvings in Southern Alaska.
Northwest Arctic, Alaska
Massive mounds of golden sand look like a desert landscape randomly plopped in an Arctic forest.
Fairbanks, Alaska
North America's first frozen mummified remains of an ice age steppe bison, the 36,000 year-old mummy named "Blue Babe."
Barrow, Alaska
The "Gateway to the Arctic" connects Barrow's indigenous population with the sea and its traditional industry: whaling.
North Pole, Alaska
An abandoned aircraft sits submerged in a lake in the Alaska wilderness.
Juneau, Alaska
The ruins of this Alaska gold mine form a gorgeous ghost town.
Fairbanks, Alaska
One woman's dream became a train hotel in her backyard.
Juneau, Alaska
Upside-down trees serve as natural flower pots in this hanging garden of Alaska.
Yakutat, Alaska
Gorgeous cave resemble a winter wonderland.
Chitina, Alaska
The ghostly remains of what was once the world's richest copper mine.
Fairbanks, Alaska
This frozen tunnel in central Alaska is both an engineering feat and a valuable climate classroom.
Vancouver, British Columbia
A renegade art installation in a small Vancouver park is now officially sanctioned by the City Parks Department.