Places escapechaos Wants to Go

These Great Lakes sea caves accessible by boat in the summer turn into temples of ice reachable by foot in the winter.

A tribute to a unique bike race that takes place every year.

A mile-long audio-guided walking tour preserves an iconic era of Portland soul music.

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

A world of craftwork elegantly curated in a historic brick warehouse.

This Portland Art gallery doubles as a studio that supports adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Definitely not a clown bar.

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

A tiny art gallery in Sunnyside helps keep Portland weird.

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

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

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

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

One of the world's tallest, oldest, and most disgusting chocolate cascades.

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

Is this the most Portland place ever?

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

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

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.

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

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

This high point in the Great Smoky Mountains is said to be home to the chief of all bears.