This former INS center is now home to a thriving community of artists, from performers to painters to architects.

A museum dedicated to the decorative arts from the 16th through 19th centuries.

This mysterious and creepy location instills a strong sense of foreboding in all visitors.

This graveyard is the eternal home of the residents of a vanished California town.

Costumed elves and mountain bikers co-exist peacefully at this abandoned Christmas-themed adventure park.

A living museum dedicated to the legendary woodworker and his soulful furniture.

These structures were inspired by both Native American shelters as well as, strangely, an ice cream shop.

The only museum and archive west of the Mississippi that is dedicated to the study of Abraham Lincoln.

The Route 66 institution that inspired Taco Bell also served as an important headquarters for Mexican-American social movements.

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

This unlicensed collection of fast-food memorabilia sits on the site of the first ever McDonald's restaurant.

The gravestones in this lost burial ground were bulldozed and replaced with houses and a dog park.

This three-story antique market and curiosity emporium claims to be "the largest singly owned antique shop in the Pacific Northwest."

This stoic, if derpy, giant stands as a monument to Oregon's statehood and the novelty culture of yesteryear.

A delightfully quirky blend of oddities spread throughout an old 1920s bank.

Definitely not a clown bar.

No two pieces are exactly the same at Portland's hippo-themed hardware store.

Seattle's own bad art museum located inside Cafe Racer.

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 U.S. Navy's last diesel-electric submarine rests half-submerged in the middle of Portland.

This sandstone mansion was the home of two of Oregon's most important pioneers.

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

This abandoned boat sits on a nude beach, is shaped like a UFO, and is covered in graffiti.

Delightful disarray of found objects and clutter.