Some of La Conner’s oldest buildings have checkered pasts – and the Skagit County Historical Museum is airing their salacious secrets.

With a walk down town, we can learn there used to be a grocery store with a brothel upstairs on First Street. Another landmark building was a place smugglers hid human cargo they brought in illegally from China.

All it takes is a map and a cell phone to hear about La Conner’s colorful past in the museum’s tell-all walking tour.

Completed in April, the phone-assisted walking tour was created to supplement historical information about the buildings...