Places kosmostasis Wants to Go

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

One of the now-less-hidden floral gems of the "Emerald Necklace."

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

A historic Masonic building overlooking the Puget Sound.

The second largest waterfall by volume in the U.S., Willamette Falls is outdone only by Niagara in the amount of water that is pushed northward.

A mass of iron named for the fire-dwelling mythological amphibian sits alongside the first west coast iron furnace.

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

A plaque commemorates the spot in the Oregon woods where the first-ever Geocache was hidden.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

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

This museum and curiosity shop provides a glimpse into an often-overlooked past to show guests that there is beauty and wonder in the macabre.

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

A Portland legend tells of small green archers shooting random passersby with visionary arrows.

Delightful disarray of found objects and clutter.

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

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

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

A library of only unpublished manuscripts.

This indoor-outdoor Portland market is an ode to the lesser-known corners of Latin America’s varied foodscape.

This modern antique shop is a museum for 1980's Saturday morning cartoon culture.