Places rmcmacki Wants to Go

A recreation of an Old West apothecary full of curios.

This otherwise unremarkable ski town building marks the site of Butch Cassidy's first robbery.

If it wasn’t for an innovative use of quilts during a crisis, the city of Panguitch might not exist today.

A museum in rural Utah documents the history of the Japanese Americans who were forcibly relocated there.

A shady solar power system that couldn't hold up to the harsh desert conditions.

An ill-fated attempt to grow wheat in the sagebrush steppe of northeastern Nevada.

A museum dedicated to the history and art of staying clean.

This museum glorifies the humble potato.

A sprawling museum located on the former site of the Orphan Girl Mine.

This tiny movie theater was the last one in the U.S. constructed in the Nuevo Deco architectural style.

A once celebrated industrial wonder now lurks in a quiet corner of Flathead Lake.

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

A giant milk bottle from the 1930s beckons drivers to this diner.

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

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

This trail leads to a mine that was used as a sanctuary during the Great Fire of 1910.

A black cottonwood gets a second life as a home for books.

The former home of the "Mother of Father's Day."

This inanimate goat created by the "welding nun" has been helping to clean up the city of Spokane for more than 40 years.

Hundreds of hopeful gold miners came here to get rich, but only two years later the small town was deserted.

The illuminated falls are a gem in North Cascades National Park.

Former farm staffed by mental patients is now a public park.

Sweet or salty, super hot or mixed into beer, this is the holy land for all things licorice.

Essence of hound's tongue and tincture of bloodroot are just the tip of the herbalist iceberg at this beautiful, impressively-stocked apothecary.