Places Q Q Kachoo Wants to Go

Where else would a linchpin of post-colonial Native American cuisine anchor the menu but a museum?

A collection of odd-shaped and quirky sounding instruments handmade by a midcentury inventor-composer.

A hidden gem full of oddities, curiosities and macabre antiques.

Its eclectic exhibits range from the world’s first motorcycle to Luke Skywalker’s Land Speeder.

At a rest stop north of Seattle, the trunk of an ancient tree.

This "Plant Farm Museum" is home to the divinely inspired and visionary outsider artwork of Reverend Howard Finster.

A museum and doll store featuring a surreal and super sanitized version of where babies come from.

The largest puppetry museum in the United States houses the world's most complete collection of Jim Henson artifacts.

One of the world’s largest collections of paper memorabilia chronicles 4,000 years of papermaking.

A high point in Vancouver kitsch.

An outsider art duo's yard has been turned into a whimsical public gallery.

A giant roadside black bird marks the location of this eclectic local mall.

A famous hotel houses an impression collection of mini dioramas and giant doll houses.

An electrifying collection of gadgets and literature from the 16th through 20th centuries.

Twin Peaks' real life Double R Diner has been restored to its damn fine television look.

Inside this curiosity shop, visitors can peruse the clown collection or purchase a molar from the mouth of Bigfoot.

This Seattle museum displays the history of the telephone through an impressive collection of telecom equipment.

Sweet or salty, super hot or mixed into beer, this is the holy land for all things licorice.

Couple's personal collection of pinball machines turned public pinball museum.

A rotting tree in the middle of Seattle doubles as an elaborately-controlled art piece.

This contemporary art museum is filled with other, smaller museums, which feature work from artists primarily in the Pacific Northwest.

Leave a button on the jacket of this iconic Seattle clown.

A (slightly) grownup take on the classic retro arcade.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.