1.   Hidden behind an iron gate is a quirky little place called Gringo Viejo, featuring a large movie poster of the Old Gringo himself, Gregory Peck.

2.   Most tenants pride themselves on living in a quirky place that they restored on their own.

3.   The closing forced foreign guests to go to the streets to change money with taxi drivers, reinforcing a view of Romania as a quirky place to do business.

4.   The Kingdome and its quirky place in time has been frozen in memory.