My hometown has the largest urban forest in the world. The forest is the largest forest completely surround and inside city limits. You have to drive around this forest to get anywhere. It is about 7 miles in diameter. The possibilities of a city completely surrounding a large forest are astounding. Secret tunnels, tribe of elves, centaurs, sprites, etc. Or you could go the evil route, goblins, kobolds, ogres, whatever. Our woods are FILLED with coyotes, deer and snakes, right in the middle of the city, so a lot of wildlife would be here, no telling what kind of flora and fauna would be in a fantasy world.
Landmarks, historical events, personalities, and other oddities from your city.
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pneumatik
The 8th Evil Sage
Baltimore has a museum of industry and public works. It features things like 100 year old equipment for collecting garbage, original city water pipes, manhole covers, and sewer grates. When I visited it was hosting a travelling exhibit of quilts from Japan inspired by manhole covers.
TarionzCousin
Second Most Angelic Devil Ever
Are you from Rio de Janeiro? Tijuca Forest.
Or Louisville, Kentucky? Jefferson Memorial Forest.
Or from my hometown: Portland, Oregon? Forest Park.
RangerWickett, since it's a pseudo 19th-Century, you could have Steam Tunnels under the city. But beware the Steam Tunnel Incident.
Are you from Rio de Janeiro? Tijuca Forest.
Or Louisville, Kentucky? Jefferson Memorial Forest.
Or from my hometown: Portland, Oregon? Forest Park.
RangerWickett, since it's a pseudo 19th-Century, you could have Steam Tunnels under the city. But beware the Steam Tunnel Incident.
I guess local rumor is incorrect then, however it is still quite large: Hitchcock Woods
RandomCitizenX
First Post
Having grown up just outside of New Orleans I have always been stuck by the large above ground graveyards, which are necessary since the city is basically a bowl surrounded by marsh and a lake. With a water table so high anything buried here would not stay down long.
jdrakeh
Front Range Warlock
Emma Crawford Coffin Races - People racing down the main street in town with coffins. In memory of Emma Crawford, whose remains washed down the mountainside during a heavy storm.
Glen Eyrie - A large-ish castle, once home to General Palmer, the founder of Colorado Springs. Now home to The Navigators, a charismatic Christian organization.
Miramont Castle - More correctly a mansion. Constructed by a French priest of the Catholic Church in 1895.
NORAD: Cheyenne Mountain - Big 'ol hollow mountain that formerly housed day to day operations for the North American Aerospace Defense Command (since moved to nearby Peterson Air Force Base).
Glen Eyrie - A large-ish castle, once home to General Palmer, the founder of Colorado Springs. Now home to The Navigators, a charismatic Christian organization.
Miramont Castle - More correctly a mansion. Constructed by a French priest of the Catholic Church in 1895.
NORAD: Cheyenne Mountain - Big 'ol hollow mountain that formerly housed day to day operations for the North American Aerospace Defense Command (since moved to nearby Peterson Air Force Base).
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El Mahdi
Muad'Dib of the Anauroch
Oh, Yeah! Cheyenne Mountain is seriously cool.
Along similar lines, Norway has a cavernous aircraft hangar carved out of the inside of a mountain. Something like a cross between the two would be pretty cool for the setting. Perhaps a huge cavern inside one of the surrounding mountains hangaring dirigibles, with some type of undergound shelter/command center/research lab...
aco175
Legend
There is a cool monastery on the outskirts of town where they are mostly self-sufficent, but men can visit. Turn to a closed off enclave where a necromancer attracts poor visitors for undead fun.
Something I always found interesting is that my town has mile markers along main street. Franklin set up the post office with these markers every mile to determine the cost of mail. They are just crumbling markers a few feet high that list how far you are from Boston. I'm not sure how to turn this into something cool.
I also found the Panama Canal to be really interesting when I went there. There are old military forts at the entrance that are abandoned and overgrown. It could be a cool way for rich people to travel to skum pond to tour their factories and to ferry goods.
Something I always found interesting is that my town has mile markers along main street. Franklin set up the post office with these markers every mile to determine the cost of mail. They are just crumbling markers a few feet high that list how far you are from Boston. I'm not sure how to turn this into something cool.
I also found the Panama Canal to be really interesting when I went there. There are old military forts at the entrance that are abandoned and overgrown. It could be a cool way for rich people to travel to skum pond to tour their factories and to ferry goods.
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