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The Atlas Obscura Guide To Canmore

2 Cool, Hidden, and Unusual Things to Do in Canmore, Alberta

Updated March 26, 2018
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The Big Head sculpture in Canmore.

Canmore, Alberta

Big Head Sculpture

The granite head appears to be deep in thought and half buried in the ground.
Permanently Closed
Fortune telling exhibit.

Canmore, Alberta

Curbside Museum

A small and quirky museum hidden inside a fence.
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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.
9 miles from Canmore

Banff, Alberta

Banff Springs Hotel

Few other hotels can rival the grandeur of the Castle in the Rockies.
10 miles from Canmore
Sulphur Mountain Cosmic Ray Station.

Banff, Alberta

Sulphur Mountain Cosmic Ray Station

Since its original beginnings as a weather observatory mountaintop, this facility played an instrumental role in gathering atmospheric data for almost 100 years.
10 miles from Canmore
The Banff merman is a horrifying taxidermy experiement.

Banff, Alberta

Banff Merman

A mysterious taxidermy man-beast of the seven seas.
10 miles from Canmore
Banff Park Museum

Banff, Alberta

Banff Park Museum

The oldest natural history museum in western Canada houses more than 5,000 vintage botanical and zoological specimens.
10 miles from Canmore
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