Kennecott Mines National Historic Landmark

Kennecott was the centre of a copper empire until the ore ran out and the mill town was abandoned almost overnight in 1938, leaving furniture, tools and paperwork where they lay. It is now a National Historic Landmark inside Wrangell–St. Elias National Park, with the mill open to visitors on ranger tours. The Anchorage Daily News has collected the stories that circulate here: crews working along the old railroad grade in the 1990s who heard wailing and voices and lost tools straight out of their boxes, shadowy figures in the corners of the mill, the sound of machinery working in an empty building, and gravestones that people say they see at the roadside on the way in but never on the way back out.