If you ever wanted to see totem poles, the real Native American kind, this is the place. You’ll see beautifully-carved and painted totems of all sizes throughout town, each more elaborate than the other. But head over to Creek Street – actually, Ketchikan Creek – where colorful old houses with creek-facing decks, built partly on stilts, overhang the creek, and pop into one of the shops there to pick up a Native American or Alaskan souvenir or two, then settle back at a creek-view restaurant right there and tuck into a smoked salmon lunch or dinner, with a glass of imported chardonnay. Pretty chill, really. And if you head down to the harbor and walk around the piers, you might even see one of the smaller cruise ships drop anchor, with its passengers coming ashore to, what else? see those totem poles!