Places Liskaliska Wants to Go

The largest university building in the West is a gothic masterpiece containing dozens of theme rooms based on different countries.

The residents of the Neighborhood of Make-Believe live without much fanfare within the Pittsburgh Children's Museum.

This restaurant offers a side of antiques, curios, and a bathroom chock full of owls.

The only way to see Pittsburgh is from the top of this lookout point, just like the ancient members of the native peoples did.

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

Found art has transformed this Pittsburgh neighborhood into a psychedelic dream.

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

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

On East Burnside, a 24-hour vending machine distributes world-class pastries.

Definitely not a clown bar.

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 beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

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

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

A folk art mecca famous among outsider art fans.

Heron, whitewater rapids, and urban industrialism all add to the beauty of this concrete nature walk.

A fake 1930s-euro-style hotel with an indoor mini golf course.

This labyrinthine resting place of Black American leaders has been reclaimed by nature.

Inspired by a foil-wrapped potato, (seriously) the Markel Building has been deemed one of the 10 ugliest buildings in the world.

A small Richmond island dotted with the remnants of hundreds of years of history.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.