Places sarahltait Wants to Go

The magic's in the hole!

A tiny art gallery in Sunnyside helps keep Portland weird.

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

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

The World's First 24 Hour Coin-Operated Art Gallery!! Plastic, Styrofoam, and Elvis--If you can't get rid of it, you might as well worship it!!

The home of the world's first and last remaining "wooly ant."

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

These machines have been collecting dust for decades.

Taking the 3D art experience far beyond blue and red glasses.

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

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

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

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

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

Delightful disarray of found objects and clutter.

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

This hauntingly stark structure is a relic of an industrial past.

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

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

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

This rare, carefully curated collection showcases the history of neon inside a grandiose Elks lodge.

A small, fascinating fire museum hidden in plain sight in an administrative building.

This old-fashioned roadhouse's quirky neon sign is as famous as its enormous dumplings.

This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.