Places badtinkah Wants to Go

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

An allegedly haunted mansion with a tragic, tawdry past.

This offbeat trailer park is home to vintage peddlers, local artists, indie makers, and more.

From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.

An enclosed rotunda at the Henry Art Gallery in which viewers can look up and see the uninterrupted sky.

Hidden in Portland’s West Hills, a 170-year-old marker literally stakes out the Pacific Northwest.

This café is dedicated to serving coffee roasted by Native American-owned companies.

Hundreds of handmade critters fill this tiny window gallery in the heart of Portland's Alberta Arts District.

Inside a humble hangar is some of the best roller derby the world has to offer.

Tens of thousands of tiny birds swarm into one school chimney every fall.

This public art piece proves that in Portland even reporting the weather is a thing of whimsy.

Entering this curiosity shop is like stepping into a mad scientist's lab.

Tiny horses tethered to antique rings are scattered around the city.

This stoic, if derpy, giant stands as a monument to Oregon's statehood and the novelty culture of yesteryear.

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

The world's smallest park was dedicated in 1948 as the only colony for leprechauns west of Ireland.

Not-so-fearsome tiny trolls live under this wooden train trestle in Portland.

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

The magic's in the hole!

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

The abandoned fishing village was swept right into the sea.

19th century museum with an eclectic mix of curiosities, from Egyptian artifacts to items on archery history to the skull of the world's oldest horse.