Leaving Juneau, Alaska’s state capital, one of its most beautiful and oldest cities. CarnivalSpirit

We like Downtown Juneau and streets running past a mix of new structures, old storefronts, and houses with 19th-century architecture from the town’s gold-mining days. The waterfront is beautiful, with cruise ships, fishing boats, and floatplanes! Juneau was Established before the big Klondike Gold Rush. The area later became home to what was at the time the largest hard-rock gold mine in the world — the Treadwell Mine. Juneau became Alaska’s territorial capital in 1906, and, after statehood in 1959, its state capital.