Idaho
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Top Rated Attractions
Idaho Potato Museum
Blackfoot, Idaho
History, industry and fun: features the world's largest potato chip, a spud signed by a Vice-President, and the world's largest potato (with sour cream and butter).
World's Largest Beagle: Dog Bark Park
Cottonwood, Idaho
Visit with the owners who built a giant beagle building and pose with their various oversized outdoor creations.
Museum of Clean
Pocatello, Idaho
Sweaty and dirty from a road trip? The Museum of Clean will put you in a spic-and-span state of mind.
Shoshone Ice Caves
Shoshone, Idaho
Mysterious natural forces give this cave an ice floor 365 days a year, even when it's 95 degrees outside. Parking lot has a big Indian and a unique statue of a caveman riding a dinosaur.
Oasis Bordello Museum
Wallace, Idaho
Frozen in time circa 1988 -- not 1888 -- when the madam and her ladies fled an impending raid.
Collectors' Corner Museum
Idaho Falls, Idaho
Jim and Nida Gyorfy curate 100+ themed collections of collectibles that they collected.
Collapsed Teton Dam Overlook
Newdale, Idaho
Impressive view of a giant earthen dam that collapsed in 1976, causing death and destruction. Ironically, the overlook was here before the disaster.
Big Idaho Potato Hotel
Orchard, Idaho
Giant spud traveled on a flatbed truck promoting Idaho potatoes. Retired in 2018, transformed in 2019 into a single-room motel.
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Offbeat Landmarks and Oddities
Choice field reports and tips. Or check out: Complete list of Idaho attractions.
- Ahsahka: Dworshak Dam: Tallest in the Western Hemisphere [tips]
- Arco: World's First Nuclear Power Plant: Tour
- Arco: Craters of the Moon
- Atomic City: Atomic City
- Blackfoot: Idaho Potato Museum
- Blackfoot: Uniroyal Gal [tips]
- Boise: Deja-Moo: Two-Headed Calf [tips]
- Boise: Old Idaho Penitentiary [tips]
- Boise: Sit with Giant Lincoln [tips]
- Boise: Biggest Eyeball in Idaho [tips]
- Cottonwood: World's Largest Beagle: Dog Bark Park
- Cottonwood: Historical Museum at St. Gertrude [tips]
- Grand View: Lawson's Legacy Museum [tips]
- Idaho Falls: Collectors' Corner Museum
- Kellogg: Miner's Hat Realty
- Kellogg: Crystal Gold Mine: Gold and Fish [tips]
- Lewiston: Grave of Thirsty Mary the Elephant
- Lewiston: Tidal Wave of Canoes [tips]
- Melba: Cleo's Ferry Museum [tips]
- Montpelier: Butch Cassidy Bank Robbery Museum [tips]
- Mullan: Elmer's Fountain [tips]
- Newdale: Collapsed Teton Dam Overlook
- Orchard: Big Idaho Potato Hotel
- Pocatello: Big Don: Janitor Muffler Man
- Pocatello: Museum of Clean
- Rigby: Birthplace of Television
- Shoshone: Shoshone Ice Caves
- Shoshone: Idaho's Mammoth Cave: Ice, Dead Things [tips]
- Soda Springs: Largest Man-Tamed Geyser
- St. Maries: Paul Bunyan - Big Friend [tips]
- Sunbeam: Yankee Fork Gold Dredge [tips]
- Twin Falls: Evel Knievel's Snake River Jump Monument
- Twin Falls: Evel Knievel Snake River Jump Site [tips]
- Twin Falls: Niagara of the West [tips]
- Wallace: Sunshine Mine Happy Family Statue
- Wallace: Last Stoplight on I-90
- Wallace: Oasis Bordello Museum
- Wallace: Sit in a Spaceship
- Wallace: Center of the Universe
- Wendell: Cowboy Muffler Man [tips]
