Alaska Attractions and Oddities
All the weird attractions, hidden sights, and unusual places in Alaska. Visitor Tips, news, stories, field reports.
Also see: Gone But Not Forgotten - Closed classic attractions
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Adak: National Forest with One Tree - Anchor Point: Beatrice the Bee
- Anchor Point: North America's Most Westerly Highway Point
- Anchorage: Alaska Veterans Museum
- Anchorage: Atlas Statue
- Anchorage: Balto the Wonder Dog-like Statue
- Anchorage: Big Roller Skate on a Pole
- Anchorage: Burial Spirit Houses
- Anchorage: Chocolate Waterfall and Fountain
- Anchorage: Chrome Bear
- Anchorage: Earthquake Park Monument
- Anchorage: Fishing Reel Bridge
- Anchorage: Giant Tattoo Needle
- Anchorage: Grave of Annabelle, Painting Elephant
- Anchorage: Gravity Hill
- Anchorage: Mr. O'Buoy - Sentinel of Storage
- Anchorage: Northernmost U.S. Monument to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr
- Anchorage: Outhouse Races - Fur Rendezvous
- Anchorage: Parking Garage Tribute to Captain Cook Voyages
- Anchorage: Playground Rocket Ship
- Anchorage: Retired Whirlybird
- Anchorage: Rock Man
- Anchorage: Sentry Storage Guards
- Anchorage: Snow Plow Train
- Anchorage: Star the Reindeer
- Anchorage: Sun and Scale Model of Solar System
- Anchorage: Wall Of Faces
- Anchorage: Whale Drowns Men Statue
- Bird Creek - Bird Ridge: Beluga Whale Statues
- Butte: Ferris Wheel / Sword in the pole
- Cantwell: Igloo City: Giant Igloo-Shaped Building
- Chena Hot Springs: Aurora Ice Museum
- Chickaloon: Astronaut on a Combine
- Chicken: Big Metal Chickens, Chicken Signpost
- Chicken: Wild Tire Rides and Other Charms of Chicken
- Chugiak: Eagle on a Stick
- Coldfoot: Arctic Circle Photo Op
- Coldfoot: Former Northernmost Spruce Tree
- Delta Junction: End of the Alaska Highway
- Delta Junction: Highway's End Mosquitoes
- Delta Junction: Trans Alaska Oil Pipeline Bridge
- Denali Park: Former Mount McKinley, AKA Denali
- Ester: Skinny Dick's Half-Way Inn
- Fairbanks: Alaska's Oldest Car
- Fairbanks: Aurora Express: Sleep in a Train
- Fairbanks: Fairbanks Ice Museum
- Fairbanks: Interior Alaska Antler Arch
- Fairbanks: SS Nenana: Big Riverboat on Dry Land
- Fox: Touch the Alaskan Oil Pipeline
- Girdwood: Hand Tram Across Canyon
- Haines: Giant Hammer, Hammer Museum
- Healy: Into The Wild Movie Death Bus
- Homer: 13-Foot-Tall Halibut Hook
- Homer: Big Chair
- Homer: Big Silver Salmon
- Homer: Lost Seafarers Memorial
- Homer: Salty Dawg Saloon - Dollar Bills
- Houston: London Bus, VW Ladybug
- Juneau: Chicken Yard Nun
- Juneau: Nail Map of the United States
- Juneau: Patsy the Dog Statue
- Juneau: Wizard of Oz Metal Statues
- Kasilof: Big Mosquito: Bite My Butt
- Ketchikan: Dolly's House Museum: Brothel
- Ketchikan: Opportunistic Wishing Well
- Ketchikan: World's Largest Gold Nugget
- Knik: Musher's Hall of Fame
- Mendeltna: Cache-Consuming T-Rex
- Moose Pass: Giant Knife
- Moose Pass: School of Fish Sculpture
- Nenana: Nenana Ice Classic Tripod
- Nenana: Ship on Land
- Nome: Last Train to Nowhere
- Nome: World's Largest Gold Pan
- North Pole: Candy Cane Arch
- North Pole: Dinosaur, Horse, Lady Greenhouse Planters
- North Pole: Santa Claus House and Giant Santa
- Northway Junction: Border Bench of International Friendship
- Palmer: Big Vegetables
- Palmer: Iconic Pot Smokers Totem Pole
- Palmer: Mini-Train and Balto the Wonder Dog
- Peters Creek: Ladybug Rock
- Point Barrow: Northernmost Totem Pole in the World
- Salcha: Wooden Skeeter Sculpture
- Seward: Big Coffee Cup Coffee Hut
- Seward: Good Friday Earthquake Memorial
- Seward: Memorial To The Kid Who Designed Alaska's Flag
- Seward: Mile Zero: Prospector and Dog Statue
- Seward: Mug-shaped Coffee Stand
- Skagway: Skagway Brothel Museum
- Soldotna: Alaskan Carousel Carvings
- Soldotna: Plane on a Pole
- Soldotna: Tiny Church
- Talkeetna: Birch Syrup Making
- Talkeetna: Cat Mayor
- Talkeetna: Leaning Bear Statue
- Tok: Mukluk Land: Santa's Rocket Ship
- Trapper Creek: Human Hand in a Jar
- Utqiagvik: Whale Ribs Photo Opportunity
- Utqiagvik: Wiley Post and Will Rogers Crash Memorial
- Valdez: Earthquake Town - Valdez Museum
- Valdez: Lonesome Fish Statue
- Valdez: Whispering Giant - Indian Head
- Wasilla: Cabin Could've Been the Capitol
- Wasilla: Iditarod Trail Race Headquarters
- Wasilla: Stuffed Togo the Wonder Dog
- Whitter: Ocean Memorial - Men Lost At Sea
- Whittier: Whittier Tunnel - Glacier Commuters
- Wiseman: White Man's Totem Pole / Beer Monument
- Wrangell: Golf Course with Bears, Bear Observatory
Gone But Not Forgotten
Closed and extinct places -- the classics and the quirky. A virtual revisit, even if it's just to milk them for one more chuckle...
- Anchorage: Bed-Shaped Coffee Shop
- Bird Creek: The Bird House
- Chugiak: Chacon - Derelict Ship
- Eagle River: Bird Wash
- Talkeetna: Mountain Climber Memorial
- Talkeetna: Museum of Northern Adventure - Dioramas
