Places anjohnst Wants to Go

Despite a recent paint job, the factory still sits empty.

At one of the nation’s longest-running professional theaters, the audience used to barter for tickets with produce and livestock.

Twin Peaks' real life Double R Diner has been restored to its damn fine television look.

Pause for an afternoon fika with sublime Scandinavian cakes and pastries.

A hidden gem full of oddities, curiosities and macabre antiques.

Deep into the lower floors of Pike Place, find a date with fowl fate.

Inside this curiosity shop, visitors can peruse the clown collection or purchase a molar from the mouth of Bigfoot.

A high point in Vancouver kitsch.

Surprisingly delicious Asian-style hot dogs.

Prehistoric animals decorate this popular outdoor park.

Amazing taxidermy dioramas from the 1960s in a cement building meant to look like an ice cave.

A small museum celebrating the fiberglass giants that are icons of America's highways.

The childhood home of the Wright Brothers in Dayton.

A tiny art gallery in Sunnyside helps keep Portland weird.

A whimsical menagerie of devils, krampuses, satyrs, and other horned creatures.

A puppeteer’s paradise offering shows, workshops, and an archive of over 2,000 puppets.

Definitely not a clown bar.

On East Burnside, a 24-hour vending machine distributes world-class pastries.

No two pieces are exactly the same at Portland's hippo-themed hardware store.

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

The short-lived railroad town in central Oregon has been abandoned since the 1930s.

An eclectic collection of thousands of items owned by the sculptor Frederic Marès.

The oldest giants in Catalonia are now displayed in a 14th-century Gothic church.

A cemetery in Barcelona's Poblenou district is home to this touching funerary statue, which depicts death in the form of a winged skeleton.