Places nomadandwitch Wants to Go

A collection of huge, site-specific sculptures sitting in the Montana woods.

The century-old remains of an abandoned farm town in eastern Washington.

An abandoned 19th-century hospital now swirling in ghost stories.

A nearly abandoned 19th-century town on the Palouse.

After this former brothel closed, its interior remained almost frozen in time.

This oddity shop contains everything from antique tools to a human skeleton.

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

These pretty kitties killed and ate as many as 135 railway workers.

An old world fairytale-land with over 350 fairy folk figurines hidden amongst 800 year old cedars.

A small and quirky museum hidden inside a fence.

A little-visited ghost town state park offers a glimpse into Montana’s "Silver Queen."

Outsider art meets hard scrabble mountain life in this woodcarver's home/art piece.

A sacred lake composed of over 300 separate pools of highly concentrated minerals.

An obscure waterfall that looks like something out of a fantasy novel.

A classic mystery spot complete with spots that are said to make you shrink or grow when you stand on them.

A home made entirely from scrapped, reclaimed and recycled material in Whitman County, Washington.

Between Missoula and Spokane, a family-owned travel center has an unusual museum in the back.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

Natural rock water slides hidden in the remote forests of northern Idaho.

The palatial McDonald's that inspired Wesley Willis.

A century-old network of freight tunnels underneath the city's historic business district.

A curious collection of miniatures in a quiet corner of the Chicago Children's Museum.

Home to a protest movement, a bombing, and a dramatic change in labor history.

These abandoned grain silos and tunnels are an urban exploration dream.