Sarah's Queen Anne Bar and Sometime Interplanetary Travel Agency

Sarah's bar in the Queen Anne neighborhood of Seattle looks normal, sure. But it does double-duty as an interplanetary waystation for visiting aliens. When a cat, a crow and an alien walk into the bar, and the alien informs Sarah and her not-quite-human bartender that it needs transportation off Earth right now (or the Earth is doomed -- of course), their only recourse is the emergency portal in the basement.

The one Sarah's nicknamed the "Vortex of Hell."