Weird outdoor & roadside things to do in Sacramento
Looking for weird outdoor & roadside oddities in Sacramento? These 5 are the genuinely strange ones — Ken Fox's Great Statues of Auburn, Port of Call: Earth (the "Alien Tourist Trailer"), Verge Center for the Arts and more — each hand-vetted and sourced, not pulled from a top-ten list. Great for an unusual date, a weird afternoon, or showing a visitor the side of Sacramento they'd never find on their own.
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Ken Fox's Great Statues of Auburn
A small-town dentist named Ken Fox (1925–2020) spent nights from the late 1960s on pouring concrete over reba…
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Port of Call: Earth (the "Alien Tourist Trailer")
Parked at the center of Southside Park's little solar-system-themed playground is a vintage Airstream-style t…
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Verge Center for the Arts
A converted warehouse wrapped around 38 working artist studios and two galleries that show installation, perf…
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Rainbow Poles
Seventy-two wooden poles painted in every color of the rainbow have stood on this midtown corner for at least…
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Giant Coke Cup with Straw
A three-story-tall red Coca-Cola to-go cup, complete with a towering straw, rises over an otherwise nondescri…