Currently housing a corporate bank branch this building at the southern tip of Manhattan was once the gateway to luxury vacationing.

Built hundreds of years ago this downtown iron barrier once protected a much despised king.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

A grand New York post office that is home to mailman Santas, scraps of postal history, and a pneumatic mail system.

The one-time office of the architectural firm that ushered in the Gilded Age is now a Club Monaco.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

Armenian monks at an island monastery in the Venetian Lagoon make a rare rose petal jam.

Where the first "expert riders, willing to risk death daily" for the Pony Express were recruited.

I Street Bridge is the heaviest swinging center bridge in the United States.

A replica of the first public theater built in California.

The California capital city once stood 10 feet lower than it does today.

Tiny horses tethered to antique rings are scattered around the city.

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

This public art piece proves that in Portland even reporting the weather is a thing of whimsy.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

Tens of thousands of tiny birds swarm into one school chimney every fall.

The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.

The world's smallest park was dedicated in 1948 as the only colony for leprechauns west of Ireland.

The magic's in the hole!

Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.

A tiny art gallery in Sunnyside helps keep Portland weird.

One man's prolific, decade-long quest to turn trash into artistic treasure.

The spot where the fascist dictator made some of his most famous speeches including declaring war on Britain and France.

The only "Egyptian" pyramid in Europe and the legendary tomb of Remus.