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Alberta DailyEst. 2026

Alberta's roadside attractions

A giant pysanka, a perogy on a fork, a landing pad built for visitors from anywhere in the universe, and a museum of taxidermied gophers in waistcoats. Alberta builds big strange things beside its highways, and here is where to find them.

16 attractions in 16 towns.

Andrew

  • World's Largest Mallard Duck

    Erected in 1992, the drake weighs about a tonne and spans seven metres wingtip to wingtip, posed in flight over the flyway toward Whitford Lake.

    Map ↗Details on OpenStreetMap ↗53.8782, -112.3323

Beaverlodge

  • Giant Beaver

    Eighteen feet of beaver on a twenty-foot log, built in Calgary and installed in 2004 for the town's seventy-fifth anniversary.

    Map ↗Details on OpenStreetMap ↗55.2041, -119.4232

Calgary

  • World's Tallest Mural

    Painted in 2022 by the German artist DAIM on the First on Tenth tower, for a festival that bills the 95-metre work as the world's tallest mural.

    Map ↗Details on OpenStreetMap ↗51.0431, -114.0634

Canmore

  • Big Head

    Alan Henderson's half-buried head, titled Ceannmõre after the Gaelic root of Canmore's own name: great head, or chief.

    Map ↗Details on OpenStreetMap ↗51.0894, -115.3555

Devon

Drumheller

Edmonton

  • Giant Aluminum Baseball Bat

    A 14.9-metre aluminum bat at 97 Street and 118 Avenue. It turns on its base, and the city put up a sign asking people not to treat it as a ride.

    Map ↗Details on OpenStreetMap ↗53.5706, -113.4927

Falher

  • World's Largest Bee

    Built in 1990 by local welder Richard Ethier, in a town whose own website calls it the honey capital of Canada.

    Map ↗Details on OpenStreetMap ↗55.7342, -117.2014

Fort Assiniboine

  • World's Largest Wagon Wheel and Pick Axe

    A seven-metre wagon wheel and a six-metre pick axe outside the Fort Assiniboine Museum, billed by Woodlands County as the world's largest, marking the hamlet's fur-trade beginnings.

    Map ↗Details on OpenStreetMap ↗54.3336, -114.7743

Glendon

Lacombe

  • World's Largest Lure

    A replica of Len Thompson's 5 of Diamonds, just over 12 metres long, unveiled in 2019 beside Len Thompson Pond and certified by Guinness World Records in 2020 as the largest fishing lure.

    Map ↗Details on OpenStreetMap ↗52.4760, -113.7130

Mundare

  • World's Largest Ukrainian Sausage

    A 12.8-metre kubasa at Sawchuk Street and 50 Avenue, raised in tribute to Stawnichy's, the family meat plant that has been smoking sausage in Mundare since 1959.

    Map ↗Details on OpenStreetMap ↗53.5953, -112.3369

St. Paul

  • UFO Landing Pad

    Built in 1967 as a Centennial project and dedicated to visitors from anywhere in the universe. Still waiting.

    Map ↗Details on OpenStreetMap ↗53.9910, -111.3054

Torrington

Vegreville

  • World's Largest Pysanka

    Nine metres of anodized aluminium, completed in 1975 with funds from the RCMP-centennial celebrations. It turns in the wind like a weather vane.

    Map ↗Details on OpenStreetMap ↗53.4917, -112.0365

Vilna

  • World's Largest Mushrooms

    About six metres tall, raised in 1993 in Mushroom Park for the mushroom-picking the district's Ukrainian settlers brought with them.

    Map ↗Details on OpenStreetMap ↗54.1171, -111.9181

Locations from © OpenStreetMap contributors, used under the Open Database Licence. Which attractions belong on this list is our own editorial choice, not something a map tag decides — several of the best-known ones are filed under different categories and would be missed by any automatic search. Spotted something we've left out, or a thing that has since come down? Tell us on the contact page. Check opening hours before making the detour — some of these stand in towns of a few hundred people.