Alaska
Find Alaska travel tips, stories, field reports and maps for unusual tourist attractions and landmarks.
Featured Attractions
Santa Claus House and Statue
North Pole, Alaska
A gift shop dedicated to Christmas, with all the trappings, including live reindeer.
Stuffed Togo the Wonder Dog
Wasilla, Alaska
Taxidermied Togo, unsung sled dog hero of 1925 diptheria epidemic.
Igloo City - Igloo-shaped Building
Cantwell, Alaska
Consider the folly of building a four-story igloo in Alaska to attract tourists.
Landmarks and Oddities List
Vacation Favorites
Notable places we've visited or heard about.
- Anchorage: Snow Plow Train [tips]
- Anchorage: Outhouse Race [tips]
- Anchorage: Whale Drowns Men [tips]
- Barrow: Will Rogers/Wiley Post Crash Memorial [tips]
- Cantwell: Igloo City [tips]
- Coldfoot: Arctic Circle Photo Op [tips]
- Fox: Alaskan Pipeline Park [tips]
- Juneau: Patsy the Dog monument
- Nenana: Skinny Dick's Half-way Inn [tips]
- North Pole: Santa Claus House. America's northernmost Christmas-theme land. [tips]
- Point Barrow: Northernmost Totem Pole [tips]
- Seward: Benny Benson Memorial [tips]
- Solomon: Last Train to Nowhere [tips]
- Wasilla: Musher's Hall of Fame
- Wasilla: Stuffed Togo - Unsung Diphtheria Hero Sled Dog
