Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

This unconventional used book store was once in the news for the surprising act of burning books.

The famous greeting card maker owns a collection of paintings by the famed surrealist.

A small Chicago museum filled with thousands of preserved butterflies, beetles, and more.

This small, but long-running hobby club has built one of the largest model rail lines in the US.

Rifle through images of skyscrapers, Worlds Fairs, and more in the largest public postcard repository in America.

This $3 million model train takes you through Chicago, Seattle, and the thousands of miles in between.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

Nonprofit art center that promotes outsider, intuitive, and self-taught art.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

A lesser-known part of the Kinsey Institute is this impressive collection of art, artifacts, and material culture related to human sexuality.

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.

The world's largest collection of fine-scale miniatures and one the nation's largest collections of antique toys.

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

This indoor-outdoor Portland market is an ode to the lesser-known corners of Latin America’s varied foodscape.

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!!

One of the most comprehensive collections of historic Native American culture in the country reframes artifacts as artwork.

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

A world of craftwork elegantly curated in a historic brick warehouse.

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

Definitely not a clown bar.

This Portland shop is brimming with natural wonders, local art, and handmade goods fashioned from recycled materials.

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

The oldest tofu shop in the United States is a firm favorite with locals.