Places prairiequeer Wants to Go

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

A tiny art gallery in Sunnyside helps keep Portland weird.

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

Gigantic private toy museum featuring among finest collections of antique mechanical banks in existence.

Their motto is, "We've been bonkers for hats even longer than you have!"

Delightful disarray of found objects and clutter.

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

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

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

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

The magic's in the hole!

This majestic building, where Brazil's coffee brokers once bought and sold beans, now houses a coffee museum.

Sculptures, jams, and the wild west collide at this folksy retreat.

Wisconsin's most celebrated export gets the royal treatment on I-94.

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

Over 20,000 sets of spice shakers reveal the surprisingly telling history of our most basic spices.

One of the oldest restaurants in the Seychelles.

The largest of the Fuji Five Lakes is home to an impressive swan population—some real, some with paddles, and one with an observation deck.

A disconnected rotary phone for "calling" lost loved ones offered a unique way of dealing with grief in disaster-stricken Japan.

Children's literature inside, forest all around.

As the aging humans of this Japanese village die off one local artisan is replacing them with eerie homonculi.

An astounding annual light display honors the victims of one of Japan's most devastating earthquakes.

A real-life replica of a home from Hayao Miyazaki's beloved movie "My Neighbor Totoro."