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Quirky Tourist Attractions in or near Alaska

While in Alaska, you might enjoy a visit to:

Consider the folly of building a four-story igloo in Alaska to attract tourists.

The two died in a plane crash in the vicinity.

Five-person teams push homemade wooden outhouses across the ice at this annual festival.

Taxidermied Togo, unsung sled dog hero of 1925 diptheria epidemic.

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.

A large hammer stands at the entrance to the Hammer Museum.

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

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