Portland, Oregon
Portland's Windows of Wonders
Hundreds of handmade critters fill this tiny window gallery in the heart of Portland's Alberta Arts District.
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Portland, Oregon
Hundreds of handmade critters fill this tiny window gallery in the heart of Portland's Alberta Arts District.
New York, New York
This slender three-story building has also had several famous residents.
New York, New York
Those belting out show tunes in this West Village piano bar might not realize it marks the site where Thomas Paine died in 1809.
New York, New York
Jimi Hendrix's legendary recording studio in Greenwich Village.
New York, New York
A strangely angled West Village home is the only monument to an explosion that took the lives of three American revolutionaries.
New York, New York
After surviving abandonment, this powerful Latin American mural is alive again.
New York, New York
Great place to have a drink and a bite to eat in an atmosphere laden with New York's Bohemian past.
New York, New York
An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.
New York, New York
A masterpiece of LGBT art has been restored in what may now be the most valuable restroom in America.
Seattle, Washington
Old submarine parts have been converted into faux whale fins.
Portland, Oregon
Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.
Seattle, Washington
Founded in 1961, this comic shop is said to be the oldest in the world.
Naalehu, Hawaii
The southernmost point in the United States is a beautiful place to look at but a deadly place to wade in.
Hawaii
This black shoreline is made up of exploded lava particles.
Waialua, Hawaii
This iconic location, shrouded in mystery and nostalgia and still an active YMCA camp, was the setting for the Dharma Barracks in the hit TV series 'Lost.'
Tacoma, Washington
This three-story antique market and curiosity emporium claims to be "the largest singly owned antique shop in the Pacific Northwest."
Tacoma, Washington
This site was a school and a center of Japanese-American life before internment.
Yachats, Oregon
On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.
Seattle, Washington
A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.
Seattle, Washington
Now a museum, once the site of the longest act of civil disobedience in United States history.
Seattle, Washington
A piece of Seattle’s historic Chinatown preserved inside a modern museum.
Seattle, Washington
The flock of plastic poultry is an ode to the classic comedy staple.
Seattle, Washington
This Cold War siren is one off the last of its kind still standing with its immensely powerful original horn.
Seattle, Washington
This unique Seattle structure was designed to be the greenest commercial building on the planet.