Places We All Pod Down Here Wants to Go

The easternmost town in Alaska can only be accessed from Canada.

Low tide reveals 8,000-year-old rock carvings in Southern Alaska.

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

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

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

A classic gold rush hotel can be expected to pick up some ghosts along the way, and the Golden North is no exception.

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.

Internationally recognized group that works to protect the wolf and educate the public about its plight.

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.

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.

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

One woman's dream became a train hotel in her backyard.

The ruins of this Alaska gold mine form a gorgeous ghost town.

While not recognized by Guinness, this chocolate waterfall is likely to be the world's largest.

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

A trading post in the North Pole where children send letters.

Four-story concrete hotel never opened to customers.

A rare chance to get up close and personal with a 13-mile ribbon of ice near downtown Juneau.

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