Hidden, weird date ideas in Anchorage

23 genuinely offbeat spots — like Stag & Moon Full Moon Gatherings at The Art Lounge AK, "Spen" — the Spam Can & Raven Sculpture, ARLIS Wildlife Realia Collection (Alaska Resources Library) — the local secrets even locals miss, hand-vetted and sourced. You didn't hear it from us.

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Stag & Moon Full Moon Gatherings at The Art Lounge AK A monthly full-moon ritual run by Stag & Moon, a self-described radically inclusive Alaskan witch collective,… Dimond / South Anchorage
"Spen" — the Spam Can & Raven Sculpture A giant cast-bronze Spam can with a raven perched on top, planted along Spenard Road by artist John Coyne as… Spenard
ARLIS Wildlife Realia Collection (Alaska Resources Library) A working research library that quietly lends out taxidermy: since 1997 the Alaska Resources Library has amas… University/UAA area (Midtown Anchorage)
Bivy A relational contemporary art gallery you reach by a narrow staircase and a white hallway over the Alaska Ivo… Downtown
The Nave (the old Church of Love) A 60-year-old derelict Baptist-then-Korean church that artists activated as the 'Church of Love' before it be… Spenard
Valley of the Moon Park (the old crib-house red-light row) This leafy 22-acre creekside park along Chester Creek was, in November 1916, a row of one-woman 'crib houses'… South Addition
Portage Ghost Town (the town the 1964 quake sank) Once a busy rail-and-road junction, Portage dropped 8 to 10 feet in under five minutes during the 1964 magnit… Turnagain Arm (Seward Highway corridor)
Zen Zone Alaska Sound Bath A residential home-studio sound bath run by a woman named Evie, using 26 hand-hammered Himalayan singing bowl… Abbott Loop
ATOM Ecstatic Dance + Cacao Ceremony (Apothecary Earth) Recurring no-talking, no-touch freeform ecstatic dance at the ATOM Center, paired with a ceremonial dose of s… South Anchorage
The Last Blue Whale (a.k.a. the "Whale Drowns Men" statue) A roughly three-story bronze by Joseph Priniciotti, installed 1973, depicting a whale flipping two whaling bo… Downtown
Together with Tarot (Tales of the Tarot at Rage City Vintage) A monthly drop-in tarot night hosted by reader Alysha McGuire of Tales of the Tarot inside Rage City Vintage,… Spenard
Salted Peaks Halotherapy Anchorage's first private dry-salt rooms, where a halogenerator grinds pharmaceutical salt into a micronized… Midtown
Snow Blossom Acupuncture — Float Tank Billed as the first permitted float tank in Alaska, tucked inside an acupuncture clinic. The Dreampod V-Max h… South Anchorage
Joule Wellness Sacred Sound Bath A small wellness outfit nested inside the offbeat, locally-owned Metro Mall, running sacred sound baths led b… Midtown
Nike Site Summit An abandoned Cold War Nike-Hercules nuclear missile battery at ~3,900 feet in the Chugach, one of the last tw… Arctic Valley / Chugach
Rusty Raven Uniques A cluttered, no-system 'treasure hunt' antique shop tucked in a nondescript Midtown strip mall, run for over… Midtown Anchorage
Dos Manos Gallery A self-described 'FUNKtional' art gallery showing work from over 100 Alaskan artists across a winding spiral… Spenard / Midtown
Girdwood Ghost Forest Around milepost 90 of the Seward Highway, pale columns of long-dead trees stand on the Turnagain Arm mudflats… Girdwood / Turnagain Arm
Anchorage Lightspeed Planet Walk (the hunt for Pluto) A scale-model solar system where one walking step equals the distance light travels in a second. The Sun and… Downtown to Kincaid Park
Obsession Records Family-owned by Steve and Verna Haynes, this is the only shop in Anchorage dedicated solely to vinyl, stockin… Midtown (Tudor Road)
Penny Royalty A vintage clothing, jewelry and art boutique founded in 2021 by Nessa Nouveau, tucked across from the Bear To… Spenard
Anchorage Memorial Park Cemetery (the unmarked-graves Pioneer Cemetery) Established in 1915 with the original townsite, this nine-block downtown cemetery holds 15,000-plus graves —… Downtown Anchorage
Mammoth Music Billed as Alaska's musician superstore since 1991, Mammoth is primarily an instrument sales-and-repair shop b… Downtown Anchorage (East 5th Ave)