The 25 Best Roadside Attractions in Idaho
Ranked by Roadtrippi users — the people who've actually been there. Updated June 2026. Roadtrippi catalogs 130 roadside attractions in Idaho.
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1. Large Rocking Chair
Moscow, ID
Furniture Center's big red rocking chair is a tempting roost for the town's college students.
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2. Chimney Shaped Like Idaho
Coeur d' Alene, ID
Custom brickwork catches the eye for a 1950s motor court formerly named the State Motel. Faces an adjacent road and sidewalk for easy snaps.
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3. Elmer's Fountain
Mullan, ID
Stands alone in the woods, named for the man who built it out of old mining equipment.
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4. Dig Your Own Opals
Spencer, ID
Rock hounds pay to dig around a privately owned field/mine that yields opals, a gemstone. Store sells 'em.
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5. Sunshine Mine Disaster Memorial
Kellogg, ID
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6. 20-Foot-Tall Assault Rifles (Gone)
Hailey, ID
An AK-47 and M-16, muzzles in the air, connected by a clothesline pinned with military uniforms.
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7. Cowboy Muffler Man
Wendell, ID
22-foot-tall fiberglass cowboy outside a mobile home park at one time held a lariat made of an RV sewer drain hose.
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8. Atomic City
Atomic City, ID
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9. Butch Cassidy Bank Robbery Museum
Montpelier, ID
Occupies a bank that Cassidy robbed on Aug. 13, 1896. Opened as a museum on the robbery's 120th anniversary. Of all of Cassidy's robbed banks, this is the only one still standing. The Bank Robbery Museum outdoor sign is as big as the bank itself.
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10. Sacajawea Statue and Center
Salmon, ID
Bronze statue of Sacajawea and her baby outdoors, history of Sacajawea and Lewis and Clark indoors. Seaman, the "Dog of Discovery," has his own statue.
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11. Boise's Moon Tree
Boise, ID
A pine tree grown from a seed that flew to the moon in 1971 on Apollo 14. It has a tiny art plaque in front of it depicting a rocketship and a tree.
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12. Teapot Water Tower
Spirit Lake, ID
Built in 1921. Now has a handle and is painted like a Swedish coffee pot, although it's called a "teapot." 113 feet high.
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13. Lawson's Legacy Museum
Grand View, ID
Formerly the Emu-Z-Um when the previous owners, the Lawson's, operated it with an emu farm. Now named in their honor, over 50 rooms of stuff, including Silver City's first hand-built automobile. Also: a fake Wild West town and silver mine.
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14. Yankee Fork Gold Dredge
Sunbeam, ID
Huge river dredge, abandoned in the wilderness when the gold ran out. Now has its own historical marker.
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15. Muffler Parts People
Idaho Falls, ID
Made from car parts, about ten humanoids, all different, stand in front of an auto repair shop.
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16. Uniroyal Gal
Blackfoot, ID
No longer flaunting her wares in a bikini, the giant waitress at Martha's Cafe returned from a makeover with a big honking diamond ring on her finger. This gal has been a Blackfoot resident for decades.
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17. Miner's Hat Realty
Kellogg, ID
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18. Folk Art White Elk
Kooskia, ID
Ghost white, bigger than life, built by someone named HarV. Stood atop the Western Motor Inn since March 2009. When the motel was torn down in June 2022, the elk was moved to this spot.
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19. Cleo's Ferry Museum
Melba, ID
Despite its name, this is an outdoor display. Cleo's Ferry Museum (formerly Pappy Swayne's Museum) includes a selection of mildly strange sculptures, one memorable totem pole, and Pappy's rather elaborate grave.
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20. Paul Bunyan - Big Friend
Saint Maries, ID
A Big Friend statue with no feet was turned into the Paul Bunyan mascot of the local high school sports teams. He was supposedly found in a nearby field in the late 1960s.
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21. Bedroom Goldmine Bar
Murray, ID
Miner Chris Christopherson, convinced that he was literally sleeping on a gold mine, dug down from his bedroom 30 ft. in 1967. Now you can drink while admiring the hole.
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22. Largest Man-Tamed Geyser
Soda Springs, ID
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23. Towering Wooden Railroad Bridges
Craigmont, ID
Very high, built of logs, apparently abandoned for many years.
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24. World's First Nuclear Power Plant: Tour
Arco, ID
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25. Bloodiest Massacre of Indians Monument
Preston, ID
A cairn of stones marks the spot where U.S. soldiers massacred an estimated 400 Northwestern Shoshoni on January 29, 1863.
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