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

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

The "Gateway to the Arctic" connects Barrow's indigenous population with the sea and its traditional industry: whaling.

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

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.

This ghostly Alaska village still clings to a steep cliffside despite having been abandoned for over 50 years.

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

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

Four-story concrete hotel never opened to customers.

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

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

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

Upside-down trees serve as natural flower pots in this hanging garden of Alaska.

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

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

Breathtakingly blue walls shimmer inside the "Glacier Behind the Town."

What remains of the summer palace of King Kamehameha III.

A Hawaiian stairway to heaven—that you can't climb.

Images chiseled into the basalt here date back an estimated 300 years.

Ten acres of the Kula Forest Reserve make up this wondrous state park.

Once the site of the Hawaiian monarchy, this building was originally designed as a palace.

This Hawaiian cattle ranch acts as a museum devoted to the island cowboys that predate the wild west.

The spot where the namesake of the Douglas fir met his mysterious end on a Hawaiian volcano.