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Wallace, Idaho Attractions

Unusual landmarks, museums, roadside attractions, and hidden wonders in Wallace and the surrounding area.

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  • Oasis Bordello Museum

    Oasis Bordello Museum

    Wallace, Idaho

    Frozen in time circa 1988 -- not 1888 -- when the madam and her ladies fled an impending raid.

  • Miner's Hat Realty

    Miner's Hat Realty

    Kellogg, Idaho

    Architectural oddity -- a building wearing a giant miner's helmet.

  • Sunshine Mine Happy Family Statue

    Sunshine Mine Happy Family Statue

    Wallace, Idaho

    Positive-spin statue formerly stood in front of a mining company whose deadly disaster had produced a very different, unhappy statue down the road.

  • Last Stoplight on I-90

    Last Stoplight on I-90

    Wallace, Idaho

    The last traffic signal on Interstate 90 lies in a coffin at the Wallace Mining Museum. The bypass killed it.

  • Center of the Universe

    Center of the Universe

    Wallace, Idaho

    A manhole cover, marked by signs, in the center of downtown -- and a political jab by Wallace's mayor at the EPA, which he felt was paying too much attention to his little community.

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