Sealaska Heritage Institute
The Walter Soboleff Building holds monumental formline glass, a hand-adzed clan house, exhibitions, archives, and language work.
United States: places and wildlife — page 17
Browse the published Explore collection for United States. Open a discovery for its field guide, practical details, and background.
Pratt Museum
Indoor exhibitions and a forested outdoor campus connect marine research, homesteading, Alaska Native cultures, contemporary art, and working-waterfront life.
Alutiiq Museum
Ancestral tools, language, contemporary art, repatriation work, and the adjacent Ancestors’ Memorial show how research and cultural renewal can operate together.
Kodiak History Museum
The 1808 Russian-American Magazin moves through Alutiiq homeland, colonial trade, fishing, earthquakes, military life, and a continually changing island community.
Sheldon Museum and Cultural Center
Jilkaat Aani, mission history, mining, fishing, photography, and community collections unfold at the edge of Lynn Canal.
Totem Heritage Center
Nineteenth-century Tlingit and Haida poles recovered from village sites stand close enough for careful reading, while contemporary Northwest Coast art and classes explain continuity.
Sitka History Museum
Objects, photographs, models, and community archives make a useful orientation to the city’s layered shoreline before visiting its dispersed historic sites.
Fountainhead Antique Auto Museum
Rare cars, winter adaptations, photographs, and carefully paired fashion turn technology into a social history rather than a showroom.
Alaska Aviation Museum
Four hangars connect pioneer flights, wartime aircraft, rescue, commercial aviation, and the machines that made remote Alaska more reachable.
Valdez Museum and Historical Archive
The museum connects the 1964 earthquake, Old Town Valdez, the trans-Alaska pipeline, the Exxon Valdez spill, transportation, and regional Indigenous history.
Carrie M. McLain Memorial Museum
Oral histories, ivory art, mining material, the first Iditarod sled, and a restored telephone booth place boomtown mythology beside longer regional life.
Ilanka Cultural Center
The Native Village of Eyak operates a museum, tribal library, language and arts programs, and an articulated orca skeleton tied to a community recovery effort.
Wrangell Museum
The gallery moves from ancient occupation and clan history through Russian, British, and American rule, gold rushes, fishing, logging, and modern Wrangell.
Hammer Museum
More than 2,500 hammers move from trades and rituals to patents, medical tools, art, and deliberate oddities.
Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park
Restored Skagway structures, oral histories, the White Pass corridor, and the Chilkoot Trail reveal how a global stampede transformed Tlingit homeland.
Sitka National Historical Park
Forest, estuary, poles, and battle ground hold Tlingit and Russian histories together, grounded in 1804 battle site and totem trail
Russian Bishop’s House
Completed in 1842, the restored log building contains chapel, residence, school history, and material evidence of Russian America.
Independence Mine State Historical Park
The abandoned hard-rock complex at Hatcher Pass shows industrial ambition at a scale that winter, avalanche terrain, and transportation continually challenged.
Kennecott Mines National Historic Landmark
Concentration buildings, power systems, worker housing, rail history, and the nearby Root Glacier reveal how extraordinary ore and capital produced a remote company town.
Baranof Castle State Historic Site
Tlingit use, Russian fortification, the 1867 transfer ceremony, and Alaska statehood observances are interpreted on a small rock above downtown.
Totem Bight State Historical Park
The coastal rainforest park grew from a New Deal-era program in which Native carvers restored and copied abandoned village poles.
Fort Abercrombie State Historical Park
Bunkers, gun emplacements, a military museum, lake trails, and cliff views show how Kodiak was fortified after the Aleutian campaign began.
Oscar Anderson House Museum
One modest frame house restores domestic scale to Anchorage’s founding boom, grounded in 1915 frame house and anderson family
Wickersham State Historic Site
Judge James Wickersham’s 1898 house holds diaries, photographs, furniture, and stories from courts, Congress, Denali climbing, and the campaign for an Alaska university.
Holy Assumption of the Virgin Mary Church
The current 1896 church, icons, cemetery, and adjacent chapel mark a living congregation rather than a frozen colonial exhibit.
Eklutna Historical Park
The park’s brightly painted burial houses, old log church, newer church, and village history show a distinct Dena’ina Orthodox tradition.
Big Delta State Historical Park
Rika’s Roadhouse, outbuildings, the Valdez-to-Fairbanks Trail, and Tanana River crossing preserve the logistical world that preceded the Richardson Highway.
Cape Krusenstern National Monument
More than one hundred successive shorelines hold camps, tools, house remains, and ecological evidence spanning roughly five millennia.
Petroglyph Beach State Historic Site
Dozens of petroglyphs appear on bedrock and boulders along the Wrangell shore, some visible only under favorable tide and light.
Bering Land Bridge National Preserve
The preserve protects Serpentine Hot Springs, lava fields, archaeological landscapes, and living Iñupiat connections to the region once joined with Asia.
Denali National Park and Preserve
Tundra, braided rivers, glaciers, wildlife, and Athabascan homeland stretch far beyond any single mountain viewpoint.
Kenai Fjords National Park
The Harding Icefield, tidewater glaciers, seabird colonies, forests, and coastal waters reveal connected climate and ocean processes.
Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve
Tidewater glaciers, marine mammals, seabirds, rainforest, and the Huna Tlingit story unfold across water rather than a road network.
Wrangell–St. Elias National Park and Preserve
S. national park. The park’s scale includes road-accessible valleys, Nabesna and McCarthy corridors, Kennecott industry, subsistence landscapes, and immense trackless ice.
Katmai National Park and Preserve
Brooks River bear viewing is only one concentrated window into a park shaped by the 1912 Novarupta eruption, lakes, coast, and longstanding Sugpiaq presence.
Lake Clark National Park and Preserve
Lake Clark joins the Chigmit Mountains, Cook Inlet coast, brown-bear habitat, river systems, and living Dena’ina communities.
Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve
Mountain passes, wild rivers, Arctic ecosystems, archaeology, and Iñupiat and Athabascan homelands fill a park with no roads, maintained trails, or built visitor attractions.
Kobuk Valley National Park
The Great Kobuk Sand Dunes, Kobuk River, Onion Portage archaeology, and Western Arctic caribou herd make a surprising landscape where desert-like forms are built by glacial sediment and wind.
Chugach State Park
Coastal mudflats, alpine ridges, boreal forest, glaciers, lakes, and wildlife spread across multiple trail systems rather than one central entrance.
Kachemak Bay State Park
The roadless park combines Grewingk Glacier, alpine lakes, coastal forest, marine travel, cabins, and small trail systems reached mainly by water taxi.
Denali State Park
The state park spreads along the Parks Highway with Kesugi Ridge, Byers Lake, river access, campgrounds, and broad Alaska Range views.
Wood–Tikchik State Park
Wood-Tikchik protects a vast Bristol Bay watershed used for salmon, subsistence, paddling, sport fishing, and remote camping.
Caines Head State Recreation Area
Beaches, rainforest, coves, Fort McGilvray, cabins, and marine travel combine history with a route whose lower sections can disappear at high tide.
Mendenhall Glacier
The glacier, iceberg-filled lake, Nugget Falls, salmon streams, and young succession landscape make climate change visible without requiring ice travel.
Exit Glacier
The road-accessible tongue of the Harding Icefield sits above outwash, alder, cottonwood, and exposed bedrock that record rapid landscape change.
Brooks Falls
Falls, platforms, trails, fish runs, and strict movement rules create one of the world’s best-known bear-viewing systems.
Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes
Novarupta’s deposits, welded tuff, river-cut canyons, and distant volcanic walls remain stark even after the original fumaroles faded.
Hubbard Glacier
A vast ice front fed from the Saint Elias Mountains calves into Disenchantment Bay and has repeatedly dammed Russell Fjord.