Idaho Attractions and Oddities
All the weird attractions, hidden sights, and unusual places in Idaho. Visitor Tips, news, stories, field reports. City roadtrip recommendations: Wallace
Also see: Gone But Not Forgotten - Closed classic attractions
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Ahsahka: Dworshak Dam: Tallest in the Western Hemisphere -
Almo: City of Rocks - Bathtub Rock -
Almo: Monument to a Mythical Massacre -
American Falls: Devil's Gate -
American Falls: Register Rock -
Arco: Craters of the Moon -
Arco: Devil Boat - Submarine In The Desert -
Arco: Home of the Atomic Burger -
Arco: World's First Nuclear Power Plant: Tour -
Ashton: Frostop Root Beer Mug -
Athol: Idaho's Submarine Base -
Atomic City: Atomic City -
Blackfoot: Funeral Home in a Civic Auditorium -
Blackfoot: Idaho Potato Museum -
Blackfoot: King Spud - Potato Capital Sign -
Blackfoot: Uniroyal Gal -
Boise: Biggest Eyeball in Idaho -
Boise: Boise's Moon Tree -
Boise: Castle Home -
Boise: Curiosities, Tattoos: Born Weird -
Boise: Deja-Moo: Two-Headed Calf -
Boise: Freak Alley -
Boise: Golden George Washington -
Boise: Maytag Washer Woman -
Boise: Old Idaho Penitentiary -
Boise: Oldest Lincoln Statue in the West -
Boise: Pale Blue Dot -
Boise: Sit with Giant Lincoln - Boise: World's Largest Potato (Traveling)
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Castleford: Balanced Rock -
Cataldo: Muffler Man Inside School -
Challis: Bayhorse Ghost Town -
Chesterfield: Ghost Town of Chesterfield -
Coeur d' Alene: Chimney Shaped Like Idaho -
Coeur d'Alene: Burger-Hoisting Paul Bunyan Sign -
Coeur d'Alene: Cleanup Crew: Big Sewage Creatures -
Coeur d'Alene: Dead Hydroplane Racers Memorial -
Cottonwood: Historical Museum at St. Gertrude -
Cottonwood: The Idaho County Farmer -
Cottonwood: World's Largest Beagle: Dog Bark Park -
Craigmont: Towering Wooden Railroad Bridges - Driggs: Spud Drive-In: World's Largest Seed Potato
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Elk Bend: Dugout Dick's Ice Cave Ranch -
Fairfield: Bear and Kid in Tree -
Geneva: Metal Animals -
Grace: Niter Ice Cave -
Grace: VW Beetle Spider -
Grand View: Lawson's Legacy Museum -
Hagerman: Pioneer Sheep Herder -
Idaho Falls: Big Wood Carved Animals -
Idaho Falls: Collectors' Corner Museum -
Idaho Falls: First Light Bulb Lit by Atomic Power -
Idaho Falls: Giant Eagle Waterfall Nest -
Idaho Falls: Muffler Parts People -
Idaho Falls: Peter Toth Indian Head -
Idaho Falls: Shaddow Domain Dime Museum -
Jerome: Minidoka Internment Camp -
Jerome: Tin Man -
Kellogg: Crystal Gold Mine: Gold and Fish -
Kellogg: Miner's Hat Realty -
Kellogg: Scrap Metal Sculptures -
Kellogg: Sunshine Mine Disaster Memorial -
Ketchum: Ernest Hemingway's Grave -
Kooskia: Folk Art White Elk -
Lava Hot Springs: Idaho's World Famous Hot Pools -
Lemhi: 45th Parallel Sign -
Lewiston: Grave of Thirsty Mary the Elephant -
Lewiston: Tidal Wave of Canoes -
Marsing: Lizard Butte -
McCall: Brundage Bra Tree -
McCall: Monster of Payette Lake -
Melba: Cleo's Ferry Museum -
Montpelier: Butch Cassidy Bank Robbery Museum -
Moscow: Large Rocking Chair -
Mullan: Elmer's Fountain -
Murphy: Otter Massacre Monument -
Murphy: Utter Disaster -
Murray: Bedroom Goldmine Bar -
Murray: Sprag Pole Museum -
Nampa: Big Rooster -
New Plymouth: World's Largest Horseshoe-Shaped Town -
Newdale: Collapsed Teton Dam Overlook -
Orchard: Big Idaho Potato Hotel -
Parma: Statue of Bigfoot, Vengeful Native -
Pocatello: Big Don: Janitor Muffler Man -
Pocatello: Museum of Clean -
Post Falls: Treaty Rock -
Preston: Bloodiest Massacre of Indians Monument -
Preston: Napoleon Dynamite's Tetherball Court -
Rexburg: Boat-Shaped House -
Rexburg: Museum of Rexburg: Teton Flood Exhibit -
Rigby: Birthplace of Television -
Salmon: Owl Club's Arrow Riddled Owl -
Salmon: Sacajawea Statue and Center -
Samaria: One Man, Two Headstones -
Sandpoint: David Thompson Maps Sandpoint -
Sandpoint: Lady Liberty of the Lake -
Shoshone: Idaho's Mammoth Cave: Ice, Dead Things -
Shoshone: Shoshone Ice Caves -
Soda Springs: Largest Man-Tamed Geyser -
Spencer: Dig Your Own Opals -
Spirit Lake: Teapot Water Tower -
St. Charles: Shoe House on Bear Lake -
St. Maries: Paul Bunyan - Big Friend -
Sun Valley: Ernest Hemingway Memorial -
Sunbeam: Yankee Fork Gold Dredge -
Twin Falls: Evel Knievel Snake River Jump Site -
Twin Falls: Evel Knievel's Snake River Jump Monument -
Twin Falls: Niagara of the West -
Twin Falls: Skunk: Stinker Station Sign -
Wallace: Center of the Universe -
Wallace: Last Stoplight on I-90 -
Wallace: Mummified Mermaid, Oddities -
Wallace: Oasis Bordello Museum -
Wallace: Sierra Silver Mine Tour -
Wallace: Sit in a Spaceship -
Wallace: Sunshine Mine Happy Family Statue -
Wendell: Cowboy Muffler Man -
Whitney: The Smiling Barn
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...
- Blackfoot: Mural: Superman, Marilyn, Reagan
- Bliss: Dinosaur, Bob's Museum & Rock Shop
- Boise: Marvin The Martian Rocket
- Bonners Ferry: Foundering Boat (The Barber Ship)
- Cocolalla: Wolf People: Hang Out With Wolves
- Coeur d'Lene: Cowboy Wayne
- Hailey: 20-Foot-Tall Assault Rifles
- Mountain Home: Mural of Thousands of Pennies
- Priest Lake: Shoe Tree - Burned!


