No two pieces are exactly the same at Portland's hippo-themed hardware store.

These machines have been collecting dust for decades.

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

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

This monument marks where the exact middle of the world used to be.

The world's longest outdoor covered escalator system transports commuters through Hong Kong's hilly terrain.

A colossal floating restaurant built to look like a ancient Chinese imperial palace.

From Ancient Rome to WWII, Neupfarrplatz has over 2,000 years of history underneath its main square.

This airport currywurst stand is made out of retro airplane parts.

Eat like pre-Columbian Native Americans in this New Mexico restaurant within the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center.

The oldest continuously occupied public building in the United States.

More than 100 antique vending machines housed in a used tire shop sell everything from candy to sake and ramen.

You can still find your way around Suzhou with this 800-year-old stone map.

At this airport "microcinema," you can catch a film before you catch a flight.

Rivers of cattle blood gone, a strange Escheresque building remains, the last of its kind.

An out-of-place slice of France, smack in the middle of Shanghai.

The tallest city hall in the world offers an excellent bento box.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

A beautiful final resting place for some of the noteworthy deceased.

This contemporary art museum is filled with other, smaller museums, which feature work from artists primarily in the Pacific Northwest.

A piece of Seattle’s historic Chinatown preserved inside a modern museum.

In the absence of a Chinese-language newspaper, for years the community posted daily updates on this simple bulletin board.

Now a museum, once the site of the longest act of civil disobedience in United States history.