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

This popular fishing spot at the outflow of a 4.5-mile long hydroelectric tunnel sports a jetty literally made out of classic cars.

An auroral research program that superheats the ionosphere.

Siberian husky that delivered a life-saving antitoxin.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mind-blowing carvings and fantasy ice scenes grace the largest year-round ice environment in the world.

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

The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.

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

Research missiles and rainbow auroras at the world's largest land-based rocket range.

An abandoned aircraft sits submerged in a lake in the Alaska wilderness.

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

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

Four-story concrete hotel never opened to customers.

The collection includes seven one-of-a-kind automobiles, vintage fashion, and more.

A morbid gateway to an Alaska town prides itself on the hunting history it represents.

This super-sized statue is the only public memorial to the deal that ended America's neutrality during World War II.

Once the center of Gold Rush mania, now the starting point for the Yukon Quest sled dog race.

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