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 and the World's Largest Santa.

Proof to your pals that you made it this far north. Colorful sign for photo op.

Stranded by a storm in 1913, and very slowly weathering away near the ghost town of Solomon.

The dark side of a everyone's favorite giant sea mammal is explored in this public sculpture.

The record-setting pilot and beloved humorist died in a plane crash nearby.

A statue of Balto, media darling sled dog hero of the 1925 diphtheria epidemic, vies for accolades with a tiny train.

Sold by Skinny Dick in 2003; he passed away in 2008. Beloved assemblage of tackiness and crudity in a wilderness where the only communication is by radiophone.

Since 1967, a tribute to the people and dogs of the mushing tradition.

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