Explore America and discover people, places, art, history, and other items related to Alaska in the Smithsonian's growing digitized collections. Held in trust for the American people, the ...

The ultimate nature escape in the USA has to be Alaska - a state with arguably the most unique landscape, culture, and climate to the rest of the country. From glaciers to fjords, and lakes to forests ...

Even today, Alaska has little by way of highways or railroads, so there are few better ways to explore America’s largest state than cruising. Travel by ship opens vistas that can only be seen ...

To explore Alaska’s wildest spaces—such as, the eight national parks and North America’s highest peak, 20,310-foot Denali—travel by bush plane, train, and boat. In this one-house town ...