Weird day trips from Coeur d'Alene

The strangest Coeur d'Alene finds are often a short drive out. These 18 day trips — Jodi's Broom Closet, Cosmic Aura Crystals, Oasis Bordello Museum and more — are each hand-vetted and sourced: ghost towns, hot-spring soaks, roadside oddities, and odd small-town museums worth the gas. A weird day trip is its own kind of date.

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Jodi's Broom Closet Tucked into Spokane's historic Garland District near the old Garland Theater, this witch shop is the real dea… Spokane
Cosmic Aura Crystals A few blocks down Garland Ave from Jodi's Broom Closet, this shop specializes in aura-treated crystals plated… Spokane
Oasis Bordello Museum Tipped off to an impending 1988 federal raid, the madam and her workers grabbed what they could carry and van… Wallace
Sierra Silver Mine Tour A retired hard-rock miner straps you into a hard hat and guides you into a real silver mine, demonstrating th… Wallace, Idaho
Sunshine Miners Memorial On May 2, 1972 a fire broke out roughly a mile underground at the Sunshine silver mine, and carbon monoxide k… Big Creek / Kellogg, ID
Pulaski Tunnel Trail This two-mile-each-way trail follows Placer Creek to the abandoned mine adit where ranger 'Big Ed' Pulaski he… Wallace
Burke Ghost Town Crammed into a canyon barely 300 feet wide, Burke was once a silver town so tight that a hotel was famously b… Burke, Idaho
The Historic Jameson (Cocktail Bar & Inn) Dating to 1889-1892, the Jameson is North Idaho's most famous haunt, home to the ghost of 'Maggie,' a 1920s v… Wallace
Wallace Paranormal Festival Launched in October 2025 in a town that bills itself as teeming with ghosts, this festival packs haunted-hist… Wallace
Sprag Pole Inn & Museum / Molly B'Damn's Grave Murray is the oldest surviving town in the Coeur d'Alene Mining District, a near-ghost-town gold camp born in… Murray
North Idaho Trading Co. Self-billed the "Weirdest Little Shop in the Northwest," this maze of rooms in historic Wallace packs more th… Wallace
Petunia & Loomis Spokane's dedicated oddities shop, billing itself as the city's only year-round "Creeptown." The inventory ru… Spokane, WA (Downtown)
Shoshone County Mining & Smelting Museum (Staff House Museum) Housed in the 1906 mansion built for Stanley Easton, general manager of the Bunker Hill & Sullivan mine, this… Kellogg
Center of the Universe, Wallace A painted manhole cover in the middle of a Wallace intersection is officially proclaimed the Center of the Un… Wallace
Center of the Universe Manhole Cover Embedded in the downtown street is a special sewer-access cover stamped 'Center of the Universe,' ringed by a… Wallace, Idaho
Crystal Gold Mine An authentic 1880s hard-rock gold mine in Idaho's Silver Valley that was sealed and forgotten for over a cent… Kellogg
Crystal Peak Lookout A 1950s fire lookout cabin perched about 24 feet up, relocated to a ridge outside Fernwood and converted by t… Fernwood
The Snake Pit (Enaville Resort) Built in 1880 at the fork of the Coeur d'Alene River, this is billed as Idaho's oldest restaurant, and over 1… Enaville / Kingston, ID