If you want to take a peek at Area 51, this is legally as close as you're going to get.

This carved memorial is dedicated to the miners who died working in the town's collieries.

An eatery for UFO seekers on the Extraterrestrial Highway.

The farthest you can be in the contiguous U.S. from a McDonald's location.

The site of an underground detonation of a megaton nuclear bomb in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

Back in 1952, you could get a mushroom cloud chaser with your atomic cocktail.

Music boxes like you've never imagined.

The world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia.

Regency-era excess on the English Coast.

A vintage penny arcade hidden in the back of a fun fair-themed bar.

Both church and state get put to the torch in this annual festival in the "Bonfire Capital of the World."

Home of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose.

This Oregon farm is dedicated to teaching people the professional art of tree climbing.

The second largest waterfall by volume in the U.S., Willamette Falls is outdone only by Niagara in the amount of water that is pushed northward.

Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

A tiny art gallery in Sunnyside helps keep Portland weird.

World's only nuclear reactor operated by liberal arts undergraduates.

Portland had a unique approach to Cold War-era protections.

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

A whimsical menagerie of devils, krampuses, satyrs, and other horned creatures.

A library of only unpublished manuscripts.

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

Gigantic private toy museum featuring among finest collections of antique mechanical banks in existence.