One of the biggest, strangest, most wonderfully eclectic places we’ve ever seen on our travels is the Miracle of America Museum in Polson, Montana. They’re right along Highway 93 on the west side of Flathead Lake, right along your way from Missoula to Kalispell. It’s right on the way and well worth the visit. Continue Reading

Right in the heart of Virginia City, you might be surprised to find a museum that allows all to enter for free. That’s right, at no cost at all. What might surprise you less is that it’s actually just a junk shop full of thousands of touristy trinkets for sale, along with a couple arguably interesting historical relics. Kind of depends what you’re into, but I love touristy stuff, so without admission charge, it works for me.
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Historically, the train never made it all the way out to Virginia City, and it cost the settlers untold monies, whether they wanted to get goods or even just their mail (more than $1 over 100 years ago, if you can believe everything they tell you on your local tour), but that hasn’t stopped the local chamber of commerce from getting motive with their own chugga-chugga-short-line-choo-choo, and as a kid right in their demographic wheelhouse, I must admit it makes for great fun to ride.
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To clarify, a dirt devil tour is similar to a whirlwind tour, except a little smaller and a whole lot dustier. We saddled up our four-door pony and headed east towards the famous gold-chocked westerly hills of “them thar” fame. We were bound for Montana and as soon as we crossed the border we found us a town of decent size for our first stop.
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