Abandoned igloo hotel in Alaska

Even in the freezing Alaskan wasteland, you don't see that every day. Huge igloo. It is located on the George Parks Highway, 290 km from Anchorage, on the way to the city of Fairbanks. By the way, this is not just an igloo - this is Igloo City, a former hotel, and now an abandoned "white crow". And yet it is still popular among tourists, only now as a tourist attraction.

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2. By the way, in the 1970s, when style mattered, this igloo hotel was quite popular.

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4. It looks like someone thought that imitation of traditional Eskimo housing would be a great idea for the design of a new hotel.

5. By the way, in the Lakota community, for example, there is a huge hotel in the form of a wigwam.

6. And yet this plan was never fully implemented.

7. The four-story hotel was never completed.

8. He fell victim to builders who either failed to build the hotel properly or simply ran out of money.

9. Since it was too expensive to demolish the hotel, it was simply abandoned.

10. Inside you can see how the building progressed until it was abandoned.

11. Although ownership of Igloo City has changed hands many times since the 1970s, it never seems to have been worth enough to be mortgaged.

12. At the moment it is closed and gradually declines over time.

13. It seems that this project will never be completed.

14. The nearest city is 32 km away - this is Cantwell.

15. During the last census, the population of the city was 222 people.

16. Who knows, perhaps in the distant future, archaeologists will find this huge igloo and scratch their heads over how the “ancient people” (that is, we) lived.