Jeff Smith's Parlor Museum (Soapy Smith's Parlor)

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 of cigar smoke in a building where no one has smoked for decades. This small false-fronted building was the gambling parlor and headquarters of Jefferson "Soapy" Smith, the confidence man who ran Skagway's underworld during the Klondike gold rush until he was shot dead in a confrontation on the Juneau Wharf on July 8, 1898. The Rasmuson Foundation gave the building to the National Park Service in 2008, and after restoration and a new foundation it opened as a museum, with tours in summer and outdoor exhibits year round.