One of the oldest log cabins in America is one of the last of its kind this historic Swedish dwelling remains a piece of living history.

Surrounded by industrial sprawl, a small monument marks the site of William Penn's first landing in Pennsylvania.

North America's oldest quarantine facility was built in response to Philadelphia's 1793 yellow fever outbreak.

A bar, burger joint, and arcade housed in a late 19th-century church building.

Rochester's signature culinary delicacy.

A planet-hunting astrograph built in the 1920s to seek out the so-called "Planet X" beyond Uranus.

One man handcrafts "the best sake made outside of Japan" in a tiny desert town on Route 66.

This remote desert watering hole has a connection to a curious chapter of American history.

This reclusive Hopi village in Arizona has been continuously populated longer than anywhere else in America.

The first permanent memorial to a unique secret weapon of World War II.

A geological mystery on Camelback Mountain.

Bootleggers ran booze beneath this building before (and after) Route 66 appeared beside it.

A nature and cultural preserve named for its multitude of petroglyphs carved by the Northern Sinagua people.

Founded by members of the Tohono O’odham Nation, this one-room joint's James Beard–winning fry bread is light as a cloud.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.

The last of Philadelphia's wood-paved streets is now a landmark of terrible engineering.

The oldest active church in Pennsylvania is also the second oldest Swedish Church in the United States.

The humble field where the first Major League Baseball game was played.

It took 275 years and four burials to finally put the Mayflower’s most famous passenger to rest.

Hundreds of personalized inscribed planks make up this historic boardwalk.

This Cape Cod museum exhibits what it claims is the only authenticated pirate treasure in the world.

During the holidays, a vintage subway train whisks New Yorkers back in time.