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Curious Alaska is an ongoing feature powered by your questions. What do you want to know or want us to investigate about life in Alaska, stories behind the news or why things are the way they are? Let us know in the form at the bottom of the story.

Question: What’s the history of the giant igloo on the Parks Highway? Was it ever a successful business, and who owns it now? Will it ever be demolished?

Perhaps no structure in Alaska has captured the imagination of highway travelers like the snow-white dome at the northern edge of the Matanuska-Susitna Borough. But the one-of-a-kind building is no closer to completion now than it was decades ago, when its builder sold the property, giving up on his dream.

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