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Igloo City, AK - Home to the Igloo Hotel

There are plenty of ghost towns scattered throughout the U.S., but most are found in the American West. Igloo City is a bit further up north in the state of Alaska. The abandoned town was meant to be a tourist destination, and it hosts a four-story hotel shaped like an igloo. However, the building, which was built in the 1970s, never actually opened to the public because it couldn't meet the standard building codes at the time.

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The building has been sold many times over the years, but nobody was ever able to make it operational. Today, anyone taking a road trip from Fairbanks to Anchorage can stop by and visit as it's the halfway point between the two cities.