Places stevenschend Wants to Go

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

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

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."

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

The magic's in the hole!

The oldest restaurant in Portland serves fiery coffee cocktails and an astounding amount of turkey.

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

A tiny art gallery in Sunnyside helps keep Portland weird.

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

Stop by to view a fleet of handmade kayaks, all modeled on traditional Arctic hunting vessels.

Get your cosplay on at Milwaukie’s only Medieval fantasy-themed mead hall.

A puppeteer’s paradise offering shows, workshops, and an archive of over 2,000 puppets.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

Mysterious chains and iron stakes adorn this strange grave, with no explanation.

This Seattle curio shop collects and sells haunted items in order to spread wonder one grim artifact at a time.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

It’s not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music’s library has been described as a “cathedral of books.”

One of Canada's most incredible rare book collections holds hundreds of thousands of gorgeous tomes that the general public can touch.

J.R.R Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and other "Inklings" met at the Oxford pub to discuss the now legendary fantasy stories they were writing.

A collection of witchcraft artifacts and occult paraphernalia started by the leader of the Long Island Coven.

The nude sculpture on this fountain shocked conservative townsfolk when it was first unveiled, but not as much as the dead body found in it decades later.

Local lore says the devil built this beautiful medieval bridge to help a fleeing bandit.

The writing studio of an American adventure author, built in the style of a medieval castle.