Portland, Oregon
Portland's Shanghai Tunnels
The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.
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Portland, Oregon
The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.
Portland, Oregon
This garden is dedicated to a Portland cartoonist who specialized in dark humor.
Portland, Oregon
Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.
Portland, Oregon
The world's smallest park was dedicated in 1948 as the only colony for leprechauns west of Ireland.
Portland, Oregon
A world of craftwork elegantly curated in a historic brick warehouse.
Portland, Oregon
The oldest tofu shop in the United States is a firm favorite with locals.
Portland, Oregon
The U.S. Navy's last diesel-electric submarine rests half-submerged in the middle of Portland.
Chamblee, Georgia
An oddity shop filled with taxidermy, funerary memorabilia, and more.
Atlanta, Georgia
This small cemetery is all that remains of Atlanta's first Black communities.
Blue Ridge, Georgia
Turns out fishing with dynamite isn't all that safe.
Marietta, Georgia
The ruins of a paper mill destroyed during the Civil War still tower over a tributary of the Chattahoochee River.
Helen, Georgia
This lovely burial mound is actually a replica that was installed after archeologists excavated the original.
Cleveland, Georgia
A museum and doll store featuring a surreal and super sanitized version of where babies come from.
Wauwatosa, Wisconsin
One of Frank Lloyd Wright's final works was this UFO church.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
This quirky museum has a collection of more than 15,000 bobblehead dolls.
Chicago, Illinois
A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.
White, Georgia
One of the world's largest automobile junkyards is a unique landscape of metal and moss.
Atlanta, Georgia
After being inoperative for over half a century, this elaborate fountain in Atlanta's oldest park was restored to its former glory.
Wauwatosa, Wisconsin
The preserved remains of the former Milwaukee County Hospital for the Insane are hidden in the wooded grounds of County Park.
Montreal, Québec
A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.
Montreal, Québec
A historic Montreal market that was the city's agricultural hub for over century.
Montreal, Québec
Small ship votives hang from the vaulted ceiling of this port-side church with a Latin inscription on the wall.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
What appears to be a wizard's lair in Milwaukee actually houses a massive water pipe.
Atlanta, Georgia
The legacies of two historic Black American institutions live on in this unassuming brick building.