Synxis Hotels and Resorts - Valdez, AK

Quirky Tourist Attractions in or near Alaska

While in Alaska, you might enjoy a visit to:

A gift shop dedicated to Christmas, with all the trappings, including live reindeer.

Five-person teams push homemade wooden outhouses across the ice at this annual festival.
~119 miles from Valdez.

The dark side of a hunted sea mammal is explored in this public sculpture.
~119 miles from Valdez.

Consider the folly of building a four-story igloo in Alaska to attract tourists.
~178 miles from Valdez.

At the tippy-top of frosty Alaska, a Inuit totem pole on a US Air Force Base.

A beloved assemblage of tackiness and crudity, out in a wilderness where the only communication is by radiophone.

13-year-old orphan Benny Benson had his flag design chosen over 700 others -- then had to wait 32 years before Alaska became a state.
~124 miles from Valdez.

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