ValhallaGH
Explorer
And you've experienced the Queen Mary, Titanic, or Orient Express?One of the things that makes me wary about modern roleplaying is that I haven't seen very many famous locales. I worry that I won't be able to make such locations seem VIVID. Pictures and descriptions of such places don't always tell the full story.
It's as easy to make real, modern places feel vivid as it is to make totally fictional, or historic, places feel vivid. Not actually easy, but entirely doable.
The only oddity I've run into is when one of my players has been to a place that the characters are at and I haven't. Even then, it's just a matter of describing the place in a way that feels real; graffiti, garbage, accents, smells, lighting, and all the other tricks used to bring fantasy locations to life work just as well for real locations. I've had players tell me afterward that they really enjoyed the session and thought I had been to the location, even though I messed up some details.
Good luck.