Places gitchsup Wants to Go

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

A little piece of the Shire is hidden behind a plant nursery in Port Orchard, Washington.

Definitely not a clown bar.

Get your cosplay on at Milwaukie’s only Medieval fantasy-themed mead hall.

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

This theatre and its amazing marquee harken back to the Golden Age of Hollywood.

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

Their motto is, "We've been bonkers for hats even longer than you have!"

Delightful disarray of found objects and clutter.

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

Celebrating the transformation of trash into objects of beauty.

A ghost town at the airport is now a refuge for blue butterflies.

Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.

Tour the original street level of Port Angeles, buried underground in 1914.

100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.

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

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

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

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

Get up close to emus and ostriches, or buy their tasty meat.

A one-of-a-kind collection of a unique medium.

The Denny Substation has been called "the coolest substation in the world" and sits in a densely populated Seattle neighborhood.

A colorful statue honoring the local salmon in glass and bronze.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.