Places Opinicus Wants to Go

This garden is dedicated to a Portland cartoonist who specialized in dark humor.

This Portland Art gallery doubles as a studio that supports adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

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

Journey through a bit of nostalgia inside this classic record and video store.

Make it an offering.

As a show of peace, a Japanese naval pilot gifted his 400-year-old Samurai sword to the Oregon town he bombed.

A tiny art gallery in Sunnyside helps keep Portland weird.

A botanic garden full of trees twisted into fantastic shapes and positions.

This historic steamboat is scuttled just a few hundred feet from where it was built over a hundred years ago.

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

This Portland shop is brimming with natural wonders, local art, and handmade goods fashioned from recycled materials.

Hundreds of handmade critters fill this tiny window gallery in the heart of Portland's Alberta Arts District.

The oldest tofu shop in the United States is a firm favorite with locals.

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

The world's last remaining store of its kind.

A vertically floating hemlock controls the waves and weather at Crater Lake.

This perfectly preserved Chinese medicine shop was untouched for decades before being reopened as a museum.

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

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

Statues of Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins, and Ribsy the dog in the park where their adventures "really happened."

Bridges, terraces, and replicas of historic structures all built of rock and petrified wood by one man.

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

One of the world's tallest, oldest, and most disgusting chocolate cascades.

A tourist attraction founded around a slumping cabin.