Field index

Idaho Oddities

Unusual destinations, curious landmarks, and worthwhile detours across Idaho.

Search the archive

Explore Oddities

Find unusual destinations by keyword, location, or category.

Clear all filters

10 documented oddities Highest curiosity first

View Map

Wallace, Idaho

A decorated manhole cover marks the exact center of everything, according to the town of Wallace.

Blackfoot, Idaho

A former railroad depot celebrates the potato with farming relics, novelty exhibits, and a giant spud outside.

Arco, Idaho

Black lava seas, spatter cones, and underground tubes turn the Idaho desert into an alien landscape.

Arco, Idaho

The reactor that first turned nuclear energy into usable electricity survives as a hands-on desert museum.

Shoshone, Idaho

A lava tube stores winter cold so effectively that ice survives beneath the desert through summer.

Cottonwood, Idaho

A two-story beagle towers beside Highway 95, with a smaller wooden dog keeping watch nearby.

Bruneau, Idaho

A 470-foot dune rises from an inland basin where opposing winds keep the sand piled in place.

Boise, Idaho

Cell blocks, solitary confinement, gallows, and handmade prison weapons fill a sandstone territorial prison.

Hagerman, Connecticut

One of the world's richest Pliocene fossil deposits preserves horses, camels, otters, and other vanished animals.

Soda Springs, Idaho

An accidental geyser erupts on the hour because the city keeps the cold-water blast on a timer.