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

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

Hidden in Portland’s West Hills, a 170-year-old marker literally stakes out the Pacific Northwest.

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

This stoic, if derpy, giant stands as a monument to Oregon's statehood and the novelty culture of yesteryear.

The U.S. Navy's last diesel-electric submarine rests half-submerged in the middle of Portland.

This theatre and its amazing marquee harken back to the Golden Age of Hollywood.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

Michael Jackson got Bad and Crocodile Dundee walked on heads in this iconic Brooklyn subway station.

This anonymous businessman sculpted in bronze became an enduring memorial after 9/11, and had been mistaken by rescue workers for a survivor in the rubble.

The last living thing to come out of the rubble after 9/11 is now a symbol of hope and resilience.

Pulled from the rubble of one of the worst modern tragedies, a steel crossbeam became a symbol of hope for New Yorkers.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of "the highest dinner ever held in New York" this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

A little lighthouse in New York City, surrounded by mysterious stories of insanity-driven construction.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

A former insane asylum despised by Nelly Bly and Charles Dickens is now fashionable apartments.

A sculptural commentary on capitalism pokes up from the East River.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

Commemorating the spot where the famous scientist fed his pigeons.

This smaller cousin of the Forbidden City has gone from ancestral sacrifice to tourist's whispers.

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

The once highest point in China blends symbolic design with a kick of adrenaline.

This psychedelic tourist trap is a leisurely descent into madness.