Hawaii
Find Hawaii travel tips, stories, field reports and maps for unusual tourist attractions and landmarks.
Featured Attractions
Pacific Tsunami Museum
Hilo, Big Island, Hawaii
Hilo's beautiful, funnel-shaped bay has been devastated by killer waves. The museum is housed in a surviving bank building.
Pele's Cursed Tourist Rocks
Volcano, Big Island, Hawaii
Foolish enough to take a lump of lava out of Hawaii as a souvenir? The public display of returned rocks is gone, but fear of the Curse continues!
Polynesian Cultural Center
Laie, Oahu, Hawaii
Pacific island cultures scrunched together for tourists, plus a luau and fire knife dance.
Hawaii Five-O Jack Lord Bust
Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii
Actor who played iconic detective Steve McGarret remembered at the mall where he shopped.
Hawaiian Trading Post
Lawai, Maui, Hawaii
Good gag photo-ops, and a giant clam shell with bowling ball "pearls."
Tsunami Clock of Doom
Hilo, Big Island, Hawaii
Survived first tsunami. It was the second tsunami, 14 years later, that finished off the clock.
Pu'uhonua - Place of Refuge
Honaunau, Big Island, Hawaii
Ancient Hawaiians might escape a death sentence for sacred law infractions if they could reach this collection of Tikis.
King Kamehameha the Great
Hilo, Big Island, Hawaii
Ruler of the Kingdom of Hawaii, his most magnificent statue is clad in gold leaf.
Landmarks and Oddities List
Vacation Favorites
Notable places we've visited or heard about.
- Big Island - Captain Cook: Hawaiians Kill Captain Cook
- Big Island - Honaunau: Pu'uhonua - Place of Refuge
- Big Island - Hilo: King Kamehameha the Great
- Big Island - Hilo: Pacific Tsunami Museum
- Big Island - Hilo: Tsunami Clock of Doom
- Big Island - Kealakekua: World's Most Scenic Urinal [tips]
- Big Island - Pahoa: Lava Tree State Monumenta>
- Volcano, Big Island: Pele's Cursed Tourist Rocks
- Molokai - Kalaupapa: Hansen's Disease Leper Colony [tips]
- Oahu - Hanauma Bay: Halona Blowhole
- Oahu - Hanauma Bay: Shrine to Drowned Fishermen
- Oahu - Honolulu: Duke Kahanamoku Statue
- Oahu - Honolulu: Elvis Aloha Statue
- Oahu - Honolulu: Hawaii Five-O Jack Lord Bust
- Oahu - Laie: Polynesian Cultural Center
- Oahu - Wahiawa: World's Largest Hedge Maze [tips]
