If your local Blockbuster closed its doors before you could return that overdue DVD you just found under your couch, you’re in luck — you can still drop it off. The only catch is that you might have to drive to Alaska to do it. Although Blockbuster shuttered its remaining corporate-owned brick-and-mortar outlets in January 2014, its bare-bones website lists roughly 50 stores that remain open in such locations as Bend, Oregon; Grand Forks, North Dakota; and even a town called the North Pole, Alaska, on 320 North Santa Claus Lane, to be exact. (Hat tip to reddit for finding the list.) “If you were to go into any of our stores in Alaska on a Friday or Saturday night, you’d be surprised how many people are in there,” says Alan Payne, the owner of more than 20 of the remaining stores.

Payne’s and the rest of the surviving Blockbusters are essentially BINOs — Blockbusters in Name Only. With the corporate superstructure dissolved, they operate independently, navigating their own way through an increasingly shrinking market. They’re also now technically classified as licensees rather than franchisees, since the owners pay a monthly fee for the right to use the Blockbuster name. And the Blockbuster name is really all that exists of the once-mighty video rental store chain, which a mere decade ago, boasted a market value of $5 billion, with 9,000 stores staffed by 60,000 know-it-all teen film buffs and/or wanna-be filmmakers.

View photos the Blockbuster store in North Pole, Alaska More

The Blockbuster Video store in North Pole, Alaska.

But when the corporation stumbled, it stumbled hard. The seeds for its demise were arguably planted in 2002 when Blockbuster had the opportunity to purchase a fledgling rental-by-mail service called Netflix (created, as the story goes, by disgruntled renter Reed Hastings, who was unhappy about owing $40 in late fees for a copy of Apollo 13) for a mere $50 million — and passed. Netflix subsequently found its footing and its almost-owner played catch-up from then on, unsuccessfully launching its own subscription service in 2004. By 2010, a drastically slimmed-down Blockbuster filed for bankruptcy, and was purchased the following year by the satellite-TV company Dish Network, for much, much less than $5 billion: try $320 million.

Dish kept the Blockbuster name for its on demand service, Blockbuster@Home, and spent the next two years closing down physical stores. Nov. 9, 2013 was the last day customers could use their Blockbuster cards to rent a DVD — appropriately enough, This is the End holds the honor of being the last movie the company ever rented. January 12, 2014 became the final day of operations for corporate-owned locations, leaving behind only those independently-operated BINOs.

View photos