Finally, you don't have to be a pious Swedish seaman to relax like one.

This neighborhood grocery houses a treasure trove of Eastern European delights.

A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

A giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.

A large instrument played by the wind.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

The liveliest ghost town in the state.

An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

One of the most unusual geological features, recognizable from a dozen hit movies.

One of the oldest reform schools in the United States, home to wayward boys such as Merle Haggard, now abandoned.

A regular looking rock with an unbelievable history.

An unreal vintage shop that wears its dadaist influence on its zombie fish.

Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

Life in this isolated, hilltop lighthouse was lonely, but it sure was lovely.

The abandoned personal amusement park of the King of Pop.

A storybook European village in Berkeley.

California's own medieval Italian castle, authentic down to the 300-year-old iron maiden in the dungeon.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.