Places Begging4Meaghan Wants to Go

The world's largest dark sky preserve is a Canadian park established to preserve the country's last wood bison.

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

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

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

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

Is this the most Portland place ever?

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

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

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.

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

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

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

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

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

Commemorating the 1948 creation of the Jimmy Fund, a Boston-based cancer charity.

A little Lego easter egg is hidden underwater in the Boston Tea Party tableau at Miniland.

This stimulating sex toy museum is sure to arouse the interest of its visitors.

This Gothic castle was inspired by Erik the Red's Viking residence at Brattahlid in Greenland.

One philanthropist's extensive collection of knick-knacks and curiosities is now a public museum of oddity.

It was an experiment to prove that glacial boulders and rocks can be used in constructions and dwelling.

Experience the hysteria of a 17th century witch hunt through goofy reenactments and wax dummies that should probably be burned at the stake.