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jamesb

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I am drawn to the little differences from place to place. The major differences are fine (language, attire, culture) but you expect those. It's the little things you interact with every day, something as simple as a light switch or keyhole. Those are the things culture shock are made of. -James Bolenbaugh
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Boots taken from victims to prevent them running away. Copyright Michael P. Jones/Cascade Geographic Society 2010.

Portland, Oregon

Portland's Shanghai Tunnels

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

Group and private baths

Clackamas County, Oregon

Bagby Hot Springs

Hollowed out cedar log tubs set in an ancient towering forest.

Giant Canister Vacs "The Va Cuna"

Portland, Oregon

The Vacuum Cleaner Museum

These machines have been collecting dust for decades.

What's left of the house.
Permanently Closed

Kholmogorskiy rayon, Russia

Sutyagin House.

What once claimed to be the world's tallest single-family wooden structure house.

The Berkeley Pit

Butte, Montana

The Berkeley Pit

New fungal and bacterial species call this deadly lake home.

Mill Ends Park

Portland, Oregon

Mill Ends Park

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

Lightship Frying Pan at Pier 66 Maritime

New York, New York

The Lightship Frying Pan

Rummage through this sunken ship, but leave your scuba gear at home.

The Broken Kilometer

New York, New York

Broken Kilometer

One kilometer of thick brass rod laid out before your eyes.

Surface of rod

Kassel, Germany

Walter De Maria's Vertical Earth Kilometer

A two-inch thick solid brass rod that extends an astounding one kilometer straight into the earth.

‘The Lightning Field’

Quemado, New Mexico

‘The Lightning Field’

In the remote high desert of New Mexico, a strange array of poles beckon fury from above.

Chocolate Waterfall

Portland, Oregon

Chocolate Waterfall

One of the world's tallest, oldest, and most disgusting chocolate cascades.

Cathedral Park

Portland, Oregon

Cathedral Park

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

Sign on door, 3rd location.
Permanently Closed

Portland, Oregon

24 Hour Church of Elvis

The World's First 24 Hour Coin-Operated Art Gallery!! Plastic, Styrofoam, and Elvis--If you can't get rid of it, you might as well worship it!!

St. Peter's exterior

Cardross, Scotland

The Ruins of St. Peter's Seminary

One of Scotland's most important modern structures, it just made the '100 Most Endangered Sites' list.

Bunkers looking North (I-84 view)

Hermiston, Oregon

Umatilla Chemical Depot

A stunning landscape of bunkers that once stored chemical weapons.

Deep in the forest
Permanently Closed

Lexington, Oregon

The Duplicative Forest

Remember that scene in the Matrix, when Neo is in the big white room with all the weapons flying by? Well, this is what it would look like if he had wanted trees instead of guns.

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