Portland, Oregon
The Freakybuttrue Peculiarium
An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Portland, Oregon
An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.
Portland, Oregon
Instead of fruit, the branches of this tree are brimming with hopes and dreams.
Portland, Oregon
On East Burnside, a 24-hour vending machine distributes world-class pastries.
Tillamook, Oregon
This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.
Tillamook, Oregon
Stepping inside this coffee shop is a journey through time.
Tillamook, Oregon
The largest wooden building in the world now houses a fascinating collection of aircraft.
Vancouver, Washington
A whimsical menagerie of devils, krampuses, satyrs, and other horned creatures.
Tucson, Arizona
Miniature art that tells an enormous story.
Tucson, Arizona
Despite a recent paint job, the factory still sits empty.
Hallandale Beach, Florida
The behemoth beasts engaged in an epic battle is the second-tallest statue in the contiguous United States.
Waxahachie, Texas
A Victorian mansion, painstakingly reproduced to appear just as the the Munster's family home did on TV.
Fort Worth, Texas
A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.
Haughton, Louisiana
Roadside attraction with more than 1,000 stuffed and mounted animal skins displayed in simulated natural habitats with hand-painted backdrops.
Fouke, Arkansas
The legend of a local monster still haunts this small town.
Kilgore, Texas
A collection of obscure and vintage equipment used for television, film, and radio.
Kilgore, Texas
At this rural museum, visitors can experience "Boomtown U.S.A.," a lifelike re-creation of an oil boomtown in the 1930s.
Arlington, Texas
Fears of Satanic worshippers swirl around five Celtic-inspired megaliths.
Grapevine, Texas
A few times a day, you can see an animatronic cowboy shoot-out.
Austin, Texas
An 18-foot-tall troll sculpture, made from recycled wood and materials found in nature.
Springfield, Missouri
Creativity is far from extinct in Missouri, and this painted dinosaur is no exception!
Glen Rose, Texas
Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.
Cortez, Colorado
A whimsical roadside community of little metal people.
Winslow, Arizona
This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."
Jet, Oklahoma
This unique landscape is the only place in the world to dig for hourglass-selenite crystals.