Places Mulcher Wants to Go

The oldest apple tree in the Pacific Northwest.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

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

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

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

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

The world's smallest park was dedicated in 1948 as the only colony for leprechauns west of Ireland.

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

Definitely not a clown bar.

Nestled between a college and a golf course, the garden is home to more than 2,500 rhododendrons.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

The longest continuous lava tube in Oregon.

This small, ancient Roman temple was once a church dedicated to the patron saint of penitents.

An extraordinary house museum and cabinet of curiosities in the heart of Florence.

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.

A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.

A lover's walk between hilltop towns, decorated with graffiti love notes.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

The bomb-ravaged remains of of a colossal Neptune.

The city of Parma's cathedral is home to one of the greatest illusionistic frescoes of the Renaissance.

Legend has it this fountain built to symbolize the Pope’s power hides a strange secret concerning Neptune's manliness.

According to tradition this is the oldest church in Venice, but its actual age is a mystery.

In the past, Renaissance sex workers were encouraged to entice customers on this bridge.