A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

In this subterranean brick arcade, a small shop continues the ancient practice of bookbinding.

One of the largest Buddhist stupas in North America is built of concrete designed to last 1,000 years.

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

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

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.

Forever immortalized in concrete, this Simpsons etching was crafted by show creator Matt Groening.

A tiny art gallery in Sunnyside helps keep Portland weird.

Inside a humble hangar is some of the best roller derby the world has to offer.

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

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

Instead of fruit, the branches of this tree are brimming with hopes and dreams.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

These experimental weapons brought World War II to Nebraska as well as 26 other U.S. states.

Gift shop offering toe tags and chalk body beach towels tucked into a coroner's office.

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

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

The longest continuous lava tube in the continental U.S. offers 2.5 miles of dark explorations for the adventurous.