It turned 10 this year, and is a great place to hang out, rain or shine.
It also provides a place to hang a rain fly.
Low clouds promising rain hung over the snow-capped Chugach range in the distance.
After learning that its principle element was 250 miles of plastic rain hung densely in strips from the ceiling, the reporter entered an artificial landscape made of nylon fibres glass, wood and iron, and saw "Il Maestro," a divide sphere which produced electronic music whenever anyone walked between the two halves.
Clouds hung low and rain fell as I left the airport.
Waking up to blue skies at the Lake Vera hut, we set out through a moss-hung rain forest, where fern trees the size of beach umbrellas and lichen-covered native huon pines (which can live as long as 2,000 years) form a Tolkienesque landscape pierced by shafts of sunlight.
As the fourth round started Sunday afternoon and the threat of rain still hung over the course, the crowd was restive, imploring Tiger to enchant them.
A few blocks from the grand facades of Austria's diplomatic embassies, whose flags hung damply in the rain, we stumbled across pockets of thriving Japanese and Chinese businesses, before reaching the area's celebrated Naschmarkt.
Still, he could not resist describing the hanging in vivid detail: "I remember what a fine figure she showed against the sky as she hung in the misty rain, and how the tight black silk gown set off her shape as she wheeled half-round and back".
When it rained, Angeles hung up umbrellas on the laundry lines so we could continue to dine al fresco.
Old clothes, stiff from dirt and rain, hang from branches.
