Places eevance Wants to Go

A tiny art gallery in Sunnyside helps keep Portland weird.

These machines have been collecting dust for decades.

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

This Portland shop is brimming with natural wonders, local art, and handmade goods fashioned from recycled materials.

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

Instead of fruit, the branches of this tree are brimming with hopes and dreams.

This abandoned boat sits on a nude beach, is shaped like a UFO, and is covered in graffiti.

Delightful disarray of found objects and clutter.

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

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.

The magic's in the hole!

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

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

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

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

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

World's only nuclear reactor operated by liberal arts undergraduates.

This sandstone mansion was the home of two of Oregon's most important pioneers.

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

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

Gigantic private toy museum featuring among finest collections of antique mechanical banks in existence.

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