Alaska
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Top Rated Attractions
Igloo City: Giant Igloo-Shaped Building
Cantwell, Alaska
A huge, empty Igloo stands on an empty stretch of highway. Reason enough to drive to Alaska!
Santa Claus House and Giant Santa
North Pole, Alaska
America's northernmost Christmas-themed town, with live reindeer and the World's Largest Santa.
Stuffed Togo the Wonder Dog
Wasilla, Alaska
We all know glory-hog Balto's story, but what about Togo, the sled dog hero of Nome's diptheria epidemic?
Grave of Annabelle, Painting Elephant
Anchorage, Alaska
The Alaska Zoo remembers their artistic elephant star, Annabelle, with a stone marker.
Atlas Statue
Anchorage, Alaska
The Greek mythology Titan shoulders his see-thru metal wire Earth globe in the parking lot of a gym.
Patsy the Dog Statue
Juneau, Alaska
Juneau's mascot dog, a bull terrier pup named Patsy Ann acted as dockside greeter for 13 years.
Offbeat Landmarks and Oddities
Choice field reports and tips. Or check out: Complete list of Alaska attractions.
- Adak: National Forest had One Tree [tips]
- Anchor Point: North America's Most Westerly Highway Point [tips]
- Anchorage: Snow Plow Train [tips]
- Anchorage: Outhouse Races - Fur Rendezvous [tips]
- Anchorage: Whale Drowns Men Statue [tips]
- Anchorage: Sun and Scale Model of Solar System [tips]
- Anchorage: Gravity Hill [tips]
- Anchorage: Chocolate Waterfall and Fountain [tips]
- Anchorage: Grave of Annabelle, Painting Elephant
- Anchorage: Burial Spirit Houses [tips]
- Anchorage: Rock Man [tips]
- Anchorage: Atlas Statue
- Anchorage: Chrome Bear [tips]
- Anchorage: Parking Garage Tribute to Captain Cook Voyages [tips]
- Anchorage: Fishing Reel Bridge [tips]
- Anchorage: Playground Rocket Ship [tips]
- Anchorage: Wall of Glowing Faces [tips]
- Butte: Ferris Wheel and Old Cars [tips]
- Cantwell: Igloo City: Giant Igloo-Shaped Building
- Chena Hot Springs: Aurora Ice Museum [tips]
- Chicken: Big Metal Chickens, Chicken Signpost [tips]
- Chugiak: Eagle on a Stick [tips]
- Coldfoot: Arctic Circle Photo Op [tips]
- Coldfoot: Former Northernmost Spruce Tree [tips]
- Delta Junction: Highway's End Mosquitoes [tips]
- Delta Junction: End of the Alaska Highway [tips]
- Ester: Skinny Dick's Half-Way Inn [tips]
- Fairbanks: Fairbanks Ice Museum [tips]
- Fairbanks: Aurora Express: Sleep in a Train [tips]
- Fairbanks: Interior Alaska Antler Arch [tips]
- Fairbanks: Alaska's Oldest Car [tips]
- Fairbanks: SS Nenana: Big Riverboat on Dry Land [tips]
- Fairbanks: Northernmost End of Railway in North America [tips]
- Fox: Touch the Alaskan Oil Pipeline [tips]
- Haines: Giant Hammer, Hammer Museum [tips]
- Healy: Replica Into The Wild Movie Death Bus [tips]
- Homer: Big Silver Salmon [tips]
- Homer: 13-Foot-Tall Halibut Hook [tips]
- Homer: Big Chair [tips]
- Houston: VW Batmobile, Other Odd Vehicles [tips]
- Juneau: Patsy the Dog Statue
- Juneau: Wizard of Oz Metal Statues [tips]
- Juneau: Nail Map of the United States [tips]
- Kasilof: Big Mosquito: Bite My Butt [tips]
- Ketchikan: Dolly's House Museum: Brothel [tips]
- Ketchikan: Thundering Wings [tips]
- Knik: Musher's Hall of Fame
- Kodiak Island: Kodiak Military History Museum
- Moose Pass: Giant Knife [tips]
- Nenana: Tugboat on Dry Land [tips]
- Nome: Last Train to Nowhere [tips]
- Nome: World's Largest Gold Pan [tips]
- North Pole: Santa Claus House and Giant Santa
- North Pole: Dinosaur, Horse, Lady Greenhouse Planters [tips]
- Northway Junction: Border Bench of International Friendship [tips]
- Palmer: Mini-Train and Balto the Wonder Dog [tips]
- Palmer: Iconic Pot Smokers Totem Pole [tips]
- Point Barrow: Northernmost Totem Pole in the World [tips]
- Salcha: Wooden Skeeter Sculpture [tips]
- Seward: Memorial To The Kid Who Designed Alaska's Flag [tips]
- Seward: Good Friday Earthquake Memorial [tips]
- Skagway: Skagway Brothel Museum [tips]
- Skagway: Arctic Brotherhood Hall: Driftwood Building [tips]
- Soldotna: Alaskan Carousel Carvings [tips]
- Soldotna: Wooden Statue of Man Who Caught Biggest Salmon [tips]
- Talkeetna: Cat Mayor [tips]
- Talkeetna: Birch Syrup Making [tips]
- Tok: Mukluk Land: Santa's Rocket Ship [tips]
- Trapper Creek: Human Hand in a Jar [tips]
- Utqiagvik: Wiley Post and Will Rogers Crash Memorial [tips]
- Utqiagvik: Whale Ribs Photo Opportunity [tips]
- Valdez: Earthquake Town - Valdez Museum [tips]
- Valdez: Lonesome Fish Statue [tips]
- Valdez: Peter Toth Whispering Giant [tips]
- Wasilla: Stuffed Togo the Wonder Dog
- Wasilla: Iditarod Trail Race Headquarters [tips]
- Wiseman: White Man's Totem Pole / Beer Monument [tips]
