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ATTRACTION Frommer
24-Hour Church of Elvis/Where's the Art?

This is Portland's longtime temple of kitsch, the city's most bizarre attraction. Coin-operated art, a video psychic, cheap (though not legal) weddings, and other absurd assemblages, interactive displays, and kitschy contraptions (such as the Vend-O-Matic Mystery Machine with whirling dolls' heads) cram this second-floor oddity. As celebrity-spokes-model/minister S. G. Pierce says, "the tour is the art form." If you pass the customer test, you can even buy a Church of Elvis T-shirt. Great fun if you're a fan of Elvis, tabloids, or the unusual; and if you've seen Elvis anytime in the past decade, a visit is absolutely mandatory.

720 SW Ankeny St..Phone: 503/226-3671.Open: Flexible hours; almost always open on weekends.Free admission (with $1 purchase at gift shop).Any downtown bus.


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