Places toniamonkey Wants to Go

The oldest original lighthouse in Alaska that was born out of a tragic shipwreck.

This general store is a one-stop-shop for workers at the Prudhoe Bay oil field.

A whale of a public art display towers atop Juneau's cruise ship dock.

The northernmost truck stop in the United States.

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

Impressive artifacts from Juneau's gold mining days fill this mining site-turned-museum.

The sculpture's largest spire points directly toward the North Star.

The cultural center preserves the history of the Tlingit tribe, who have lived in this Alaska village for more than 10,000 years.

The remains of the first saint from Alaska in the Russian Orthodox Church.

Open day and night, a church with three pews and Bibles.

11,500 year old little girl found buried in an ancient fire pit.

Alaska Natives have lived on this tiny isolated island in the Bering Strait for over 5,000 years.

On top of a sheet metal business in Juneau stand nearly a dozen charming Wizard of Oz statues.

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

The northernmost international land border crossing in the United States.

One of two side-by-side totem pole parks dedicated to educating visitors on Tlingit history and culture.

Siberian husky that delivered a life-saving antitoxin.

A tiny wilderness cemetery commemorates the deadliest episode of the Klondike Gold Rush.

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

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

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

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

During the summer, surfers in Alaska take advantage of this inlet’s unusual water patterns.