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

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

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

Tour a Cold War-era U.S. military missile launch site in Anchorage.

The now-serene site of the largest earthquake ever recorded in North America.

See a full-scale whale skeleton and experience the captivating culture of Alaska’s Native people at this heritage center in east Anchorage.

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

Permanent exhibit reminds visitors of the Exxon Valdez.

A hulking remnant of Alaska's industrial gold mining boom in the 1920s.

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

The northernmost truck stop in the United States.

This gravelly, dangerous highway is the only road in the United States that leads to the Arctic Ocean.

The site of one of Japan's very few American occupations during World War II still holds the relics of a roundly disastrous campaign.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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