42 Cool and Unusual Things to Do in Alberta - Atlas Obscura

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Banff Springs Hotel

Few other hotels can rival the grandeur of the Castle in the Rockies.

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Added by Nicholas Jackson

Bankhead

Bankhead, Alberta

Bankhead Ghost Town

The ruins of the "20-year town" lay out among the mountains of Alberta.

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Added by Elliot Carter

Drumheller, Alberta

The Hoodoos of Drumheller Valley

Hoodoos, naturally eroded land formations, stand 20 feet tall in the Canadian badlands.

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Tunnel Entrance

Kananaskis, Alberta

The Vault

What was to be the world's most secure Cold War document vault ended up as just a few shallow caves.

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Vulcan's Starship FX6-1995-A, replica of the Starship Enterprise, named after Vulcan Airport's designation FX6.

Vulcan, Alberta

Vulcan

Live long and prosper in Vulcan, Alberta.

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Banff Merman

A mysterious taxidermy man-beast of the seven seas.

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Added by Annetta Black

Torrington, Alberta

Gopher Hole Museum

Museum of stuffed gophers set up in various scenes.

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Columbia Icefield

A surviving remnant of the thick ice mass that once mantled most of Western Canada's mountains.

52.8734, -117.9543

Added by canuck

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