Oddities We’ve Found

Ghost towns, space travel and giant pirogi…!? It started innocently enough, as a means of doing something to satisfy our need for different weekend adventures. However, this quest seems to have taken a life of its own and has become a guide to the many unique places and stories that we discover on the roadsides of North America.

There are three criteria needed for an oddity to make it to the list:

1. It needs to be explorable.
2. It needs to be road side (no hiking).
3. It needs to be an oddity or have an interesting story.

Alberta & Prairies

Uniquely Alberta Google Map / #uniquelyalberta

• Big Valley — Cute Little Town
• Black Diamond — Cute Little Town
• Bowden — SunMaze
• Calgary — Eamon’s Bungalow Camp (Gone)
• Calgary — Fort Calgary
• Calgary — John Ware Grave
• Calgary — Potter’s Field
• Calgary — Union Cemetery
• Drumheller — Dorothy
• Drumheller — Wayne
• Drumheller — Willow Creek Hoodoos
• East Coulee — Atlas Coal Mine
• Fort Macleod — Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump
• Fort MacLeod — Historic Downtown
• Fort MacLeod — Union and Holy Cross Cemeteries
• High River – Town Murals
• Irricana — Pioneer Acres
• Irricana — Pioneer Truck Museum
• Lacombe — CornMaze
• Longview — Bar U Ranch
• Nanton — Cute Little Town
• Okotoks — Okotoks Erratic
• Stettler — Alberta Prairie Excursions
• Torrington — Gopher Museum
• Vulcan — USS Enterprise

East Coast

Map of Les Moulin / #moulin.

• Blainville — Sainte-Thérèse-de-Blainville
• Burlington — Rocket & Rhino Head, Filing Cabinets, and Whale Tails
• Edmonston — Fortin du Petit-Sault
• Glover — Museum of Everyday Life
• Montréal — Moulin à vent de Pointe-Claire
• Montréal — Les Moulin de l’Île-Perrot
• Montréal — The Mysteries of the Lachine Canal
• Montréal — A house that links Montréal to Louisiana
• Nackawic — The World’s Largest Axe
• Repentigny — Le Moulin Grenier
• Stanstead — Stone Circle

Southwestern US

• Amboy — Amboy Shoe Tree
• Calico — Calico Ghost Town
• Kingman — Elmer’s Bottle Tree Ranch
• Oatman — Sitgreaves Pass
• Quartzsite — Hi Jolly Memorial & Cemetery

West Coast, Best Coast

• Bodega — Watson School
• Burlingame – Pez Museum
• Coombs — Old Country Market
• Craigellachie — The Last Spike
• Parksville – Sand Sculptures
• Revelstoke — Enchanted Forest
• Seattle — The Fremont Troll
• Vancouver — Jimi Hendrix Shrine
• Vancouver — Nine O’Clock Gun
• Vancouver — Totem Poles of Stanley Park