It should come as no surprise that the best view of the Hollywood sign is from Batman's lair.

The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

A Yiddish theater turned movie house turned rock and roll landmark turned gay disco turned bank.

This former crime corner has been turned into an eclectic community center.

One of the few remaining American elm trees in New York’s Tompkins Square Park was the birthplace of a new religion.

A clock set into the concrete outside a Manhattan jeweler has been telling time underfoot for over a century.

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

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.

Where now stands a 42-story condominium tower of marble, glass and steel was once the central market of New York’s slave trade.

The smallest island in Manhattan is a manmade landfill dominated by a Buddhist peace arch.

This narrow shop in the East Village hosts a matchmaking service for the new millennium.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

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

The magic's in the hole!

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

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

These machines have been collecting dust for decades.

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

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

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

This sandstone mansion was the home of two of Oregon's most important pioneers.

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