Places Sun Wants to Go

This ultra-modern home clings to the slope of the Hollywood Hills on a precarious stilt.

The final resting place of a space program monolith, soon to be unveiled again to the public.

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House on Haunted Hill" to a robot hunter's pad.

A prohibition-style speakeasy takes up residence in the last Victorian residence in Hollywood.

World's largest porcine hairball sits in a collection maintained by Benedictine monks.

A tiny art gallery in Sunnyside helps keep Portland weird.

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

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

A library of only unpublished manuscripts.

The oldest apple tree in the Pacific Northwest.

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

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

A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.

Discover the taste of mold.

Ham is serious business at the Prosciutto Museum-Serious, delicious business.

The birthplace of America's favorite fruit-flavored mystery dessert.

Snack on a partially gestated duck egg.

340 bicycles, 65 feet high.

This historical theme park celebrates all things noodle.

Whiskey lovers, this is your happy place.

A small town market proudly displays numerous taxidermied animals along its walls.

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

Drinkslinger is an unlikely vocation for a Buddhist monk, but at this Tokyo bar the enlightenment is served in a martini glass.

The freshest fish here are the ones you catch yourself.