Weird & unusual things to do in Spokane
The genuinely offbeat side of Spokane: 60 hand-vetted hidden spots — oddity shops, hidden bars, haunted history, sound baths, weird outdoor finds — built for an unusual date night, a weird afternoon, or showing a visitor a side of the city they'd never find alone. Like Jodi's Broom Closet, Cosmic Aura Crystals, Beyond Tarot And More. Local secrets even locals miss — you didn't hear it from us.
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Jodi's Broom Closet
A genuine witch shop tucked into the historic Garland Theater block, carrying crystals, oils, and a working h…
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Cosmic Aura Crystals
A small, owner-run spiritual shop in Spokane's Garland District specializing in aura crystals, stones flashed…
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Beyond Tarot And More
Psychic and tarot reader Jeanah Jens has worked out of Spokane since 1981, billing herself as a tarot master,…
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Mystic Marla Palm Reading
Marla has practiced palmistry for over 30 years and fingerprint analysis for more than 15, rounding out sessi…
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Rosie Psychic Tarot and Palm Reading
A small home-based psychic parlor where Rose offers palm, tarot, and psychic readings in confidence, covering…
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The Historic Davenport Hotel
Built by entrepreneur Louis Davenport after the Great Fire of 1889, this opulent 1914 hotel is anchored by a…
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Bing Crosby Theater (formerly The Met)
This 1915 theater opened as the Clemmer movie house, later ran as "The Met," and in 2006 was renamed for Spok…
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Greenwood Cemetery & the 1,000 Steps
An 1888 hilltop garden cemetery (now Greenwood Memorial Terrace) whose most storied feature is a crumbling te…
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Spokane Ghost Tours (Two Dog City Tours / Chet Caskey)
Run since 2012 by local historian Chet Caskey, this small outfit leads walking and bicycle ghost tours throug…
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Sierra Silver Mine Tour
About 80 miles east of Spokane off I-90, Wallace sits in the richest silver district on earth, and this tour…
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Petunia & Loomis
Owners Samantha and Jesse McCauley run what they bill as Spokane's only year-round creeptown: a downtown Howa…
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Famous Joe's Vendor Emporium
This sprawling vendor mall houses more than 160 independent booths and bills itself as having the largest sel…
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Boo Radley's
Open in downtown Spokane since 1993 and named for the To Kill a Mockingbird character, Boo Radley's is a glee…
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Fire Lookout Museum
Ray and Rita Kresek turned their one-acre north Spokane home into a shrine to forest fire lookout towers, pac…
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Bing Crosby House Museum
The crooner's actual childhood home on the Gonzaga University campus has been preserved as a single-person ob…
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Spokane Neon Museum
Artist Chris Bovey spent years rescuing and personally restoring the buzzing vintage signs that once lit up S…
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Jedi Alliance
Spokane's original retro arcade packs over 160 arcade cabinets and pinball tables, all set to free play once…
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Bird Aviation Museum & Invention Center
Founded by Dr. Forrest Bird, a lifelong aviator who soloed a plane at 14 and went on to invent the first mass…
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Idaho Wildlife Museum
A private foundation's collection houses one of the largest assemblies of bronze wildlife sculpture in the wo…
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Garbage Goat
A roughly 200-pound corten-steel billy goat tucked into a basalt 'Goat Grotto' actually vacuums up litter thr…
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The Childhood Express (Giant Red Wagon)
A 27-foot-long, 26-ton steel-and-concrete replica of a classic Radio Flyer wagon sits in Riverfront Park, wit…
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Way Out West Statue Farm
A 16-foot Tyrannosaurus rex looms over a treehouse in an open field beside I-90, sharing the lot with a giant…
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Artisans at the Dahmen Barn (Fence of 1,000 Wheels)
A 1935 dairy barn in the rolling Palouse is ringed by a hand-built fence of more than a thousand salvaged whe…
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Splatter Spokane
A blacklight splatter-paint studio where you step into a room lit by UV, crank curated music and fling glow p…
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Rotary Riverfront Fountain
Designed by Spokane artists Harold Balazs and Bob Perron, this monumental abstract structure functions as a g…
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Mary Lou's Milk Bottle
A 38-foot-tall white milk bottle towers over the Garland Avenue sidewalk, built in 1935 as a beacon for the B…
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Mudgy Moose Trail
Five life-size bronze statues of Mudgy the Moose are scattered along a 2.25-mile route from the base of Tubbs…
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Sandpoint's Statue of Liberty (Lady Liberty of the Lake)
A roughly human-sized Statue of Liberty stands alone at the end of a short concrete pier jutting into Lake Pe…
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Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge Mima Mounds
About four miles south of Cheney, the prairie here is studded with hundreds of low, oval domes of earth calle…
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Steptoe Butte State Park
Steptoe Butte is a freak of deep time: a 400-million-year-old quartzite island poking up through the much you…
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Palouse Falls State Park
A 198-foot waterfall thunders into a deep plunge pool ringed by columnar basalt cliffs, the last surviving re…
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Dishman Hills Natural Area - Enchanted Ravine
Minutes from the strip malls of Spokane Valley, the Enchanted Ravine trail squeezes between exposed 1.5-billi…
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Deep Creek Canyon, Riverside State Park
At the northern end of Riverside State Park, a dry side canyon drops through a jumble of 16-million-year-old…
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Hogwash Whiskey Den
There is no neon and no sidewalk sign here — you descend an unmarked stairwell into the basement of the 1891…
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Cease & Desist Book Club
A plain downtown storefront in the historic Legion Building hides a working bar behind a wall of bookshelves…
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Durkin's Liquor Bar
Named for Jimmie Durkin, a real pre-Prohibition Spokane liquor tycoon, this bar pairs a lively diner-chic mai…
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Baby Bar
An itty-bitty hole-in-the-wall hidden behind the Neato Burrito counter, marked mostly by a subtle door and a…
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The Peacock Room Lounge
Set inside the legendary Historic Davenport Hotel, this Jazz Age lounge is crowned by a dazzling stained-glas…
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Volstead Act
A small, snug cocktail bar inside the historic Peyton Building, named for the 1919 Volstead Act that launched…
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Glass Gods Flame Working Studio
Tim Bohr has been melting and pulling borosilicate glass in this Argonne Road shop since 1998, and the studio…
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Fire Iron Forge
A working blacksmith shop in Rathdrum, Idaho, just north of Coeur d'Alene and about 40 minutes from Spokane,…
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Kukio Metalsmith Workshops
Classes happen in the loft of a converted barn in Valleyford, about 15 minutes south of Spokane, where you le…
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MODE Ceramics — Date Night Pottery
A two-hour guided wheel session on Friday evenings, capped at four couples so the room never feels like a cro…
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Spokane Art School — Wheel Throwing a Dinner for Two
Rather than a generic make-a-mug night, this Spokane Art School class with instructor Jamie Tate has you thro…
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Columbia Fire & Iron
A Spokane nonprofit built to keep the craft of blacksmithing and metal art alive across eastern Washington an…
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Berserk
Berserk is an intimate, punk-leaning downtown bar built around a row of nine pinball machines, a pool table a…
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Gamers Arcade Bar
A family-owned 21+ retro barcade in downtown Spokane, pairing classic arcade cabinets, pinball, and air hocke…
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Spokane Pinball Company at the Wonder Building
Tucked in the basement of the renovated historic Wonder Building, this is a small pinball arcade operated by…
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Sage's Portal Board Game Cafe
A family-friendly board game cafe with a lending library of over 200 titles sorted into four complexity tiers…
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Roller Valley Skate & Event Center
A survivor-era roller rink in Spokane Valley that's kept skating alive since 1978, with public skate sessions…
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Spokane Astronomical Society Star Parties at Fishtrap
One of the oldest astronomy clubs in the United States hauls its telescopes out to a stretch of BLM scabland…
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Spokane Riverkeeper Full Moon BYO-Boat Paddle
A few times each summer, Spokane Riverkeeper leads a slow flat-water float on the Spokane River under the ful…
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Midnight Movies at The Garland Theater
A 1945 single-screen neighborhood movie palace that has stayed scrappy and independent, open daily until midn…
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Spokane NIGHT MARKET & Street Fair
A monthly second-Friday evening market that leans deliberately weird, with 50-plus vendors hawking crystals,…
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Quinn's Hot Springs (Montana day trip)
The nearest genuine soak-under-the-stars getaway from Spokane is a string of riverside mineral pools in Monta…
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Elberton Ghost Town
Roughly an hour south of Spokane in the rolling Palouse, Elberton was a busy timber and fruit town until decl…
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Gardner Cave at Crawford State Park
In the far northeast corner of Washington, almost on the Canadian border, Gardner Cave is the longest limesto…
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Dry Falls
Dry Falls is the ghost of the largest waterfall that ever existed: a 3.5-mile-wide, 400-foot cliff carved by…
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Cataldo Mission (Old Mission State Park)
The oldest standing building in Idaho, this 1850s mission church was raised by Coeur d'Alene Tribe members an…
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Steptoe Butte
A 3,612-foot quartzite knob jutting nearly a thousand feet above the otherwise rolling Palouse, Steptoe Butte…
Unusual things to do in Spokane — FAQ
What are some unusual things to do in Spokane?
60 hand-vetted weird spots — like Jodi's Broom Closet, Cosmic Aura Crystals, Beyond Tarot And More — plus oddity shops, hidden bars, haunted history, sound baths, and offbeat outdoor finds. Every one is real and sourced, not a top-ten landmark.
Where can you go for a weird date night in Spokane?
Try Jodi's Broom Closet, Cosmic Aura Crystals, Beyond Tarot And More — strange-but-real spots that make a memorable date. Filter by neighborhood, vibe, or how far you'll drive: in town, nearby, or a day trip.
What's a weird thing to do in Spokane tonight or this weekend?
For tonight, filter to "in town" and low-key picks; for the weekend, the day-trip ring opens up genuinely strange spots a short drive out. Start with Jodi's Broom Closet, Cosmic Aura Crystals, Beyond Tarot And More — and sort by how far you're willing to go.
Are there free or cheap weird things to do in Spokane?
Yes — 30 Spokane spots are free or low-cost, like Fire Lookout Museum, Bing Crosby House Museum, Spokane Neon Museum. Roadside oddities, public art, and outdoor curiosities usually cost nothing.
How is this different from the usual Spokane tourist lists?
We skip the landmarks everyone knows. An agentic research system digs up the genuinely hidden, offbeat spots — the local secrets even locals miss — and verifies each against real sources before it makes the list.