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Juneau, Alaska
The Alaskan opened on September 16, 1913, and is the oldest continuously operating hotel in Alaska, listed on the National Register of…
Skagway, Alaska
Built in 1902, this Skagway house has been a hospital, a daycare and a hotel, and was restored after a fire in the 1980s. It now operates…
Skagway, Alaska
Dyea was the port where Klondike gold seekers landed to climb the Chilkoot Trail in 1897 and 1898, then emptied after the White Pass…
Talkeetna, Alaska
The Fairview opened in 1923 as the overnight stop between Seward and Fairbanks on the newly finished Alaska Railroad, and it is listed on…
Gakona, Alaska
Gakona Lodge was built in 1929 on the site of the earlier Doyle's Roadhouse, at the junction of the Copper and Gakona rivers, and is among…
Anchorage, Alaska
The Anchorage Hotel opened in 1916, a year after the town was chartered, and added the annex next door in 1936. The 1916 building was sold…
Anchorage, Alaska
The Hotel Captain Cook opened in 1965, built by Walter Hickel in the year after the Good Friday earthquake as a statement that Anchorage…
Haines, Alaska
The Hotel Halsingland occupies the former bachelor officers' quarters at Fort Seward in Haines, a National Historic Landmark overlooking…
Palmer, Alaska
Independence Mine was a hard-rock gold camp at the top of Hatcher Pass that began with Robert Hatcher's 1906 claim and ramped up in 1938,…
Skagway, Alaska
Visitors to Soapy Smith's old parlor in Skagway describe cold spots, the feeling of being watched from the back of the room, and the smell…
McCarthy, Alaska
Kennecott was the centre of a copper empire until the ore ran out and the mill town was abandoned almost overnight in 1938, leaving…
Kodiak, Alaska
The Kodiak History Museum is said to be haunted by Benjamin McIntyre, who lived in the building while working for the Alaska Commercial…
Skagway, Alaska
The Red Onion opened in 1897 as Skagway's most expensive brothel, serving the men pouring through town for the Klondike gold rush. It runs…
Sitka, Alaska
Built between 1841 and 1843, the Russian Bishop's House is one of the last buildings of Russian America still standing, and served as the…
Anchorage, Alaska
Ship Creek is where Anchorage itself began — in 1915, a tent city of more than 2,000 railroad workers sprang up at its mouth, and the…
Juneau, Alaska
Gus Messerschmidt, an Austrian baker, opened a bakery on this Juneau block in 1898, the oldest in Alaska. He died in 1938. The building…
Juneau, Alaska
The Treadwell mines on Douglas Island employed up to 2,000 people from 17 countries between 1882 and 1922, when part of the workings caved…
Seward, Alaska
This brick building went up in downtown Seward in 1916 and became a hotel in 1921; it was added to the National Register of Historic Places…
Anchorage, Alaska
The Wendy Williamson Auditorium is a 910-seat theatre on the west campus of the University of Alaska Anchorage, and its ghost stories have…