The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

A world of craftwork elegantly curated in a historic brick warehouse.

Get your cosplay on at Portland’s only Medieval fantasy-themed mead hall.

On East Burnside, a 24-hour vending machine distributes world-class pastries.

A home covered with elaborate mosaic and other pieces of art.

Fans of vintage Vegas, kitsch, and toy pony-based gambling now flock to a casino called The D.

Nevada's largest cactus collection stands outside a candy mogul's small factory.

A new kind of theme park for adults off the Las Vegas Strip.

These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.

The best Tiki bar in Las Vegas.

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

The remains of a Rockefeller's lush Italianate estate hidden in the underbrush on the coast of Lake Michigan.

Urban explorers embraced America's now demolished first suburban mall, south of Chicago.

In the middle of Calvary Cemetery stands this singular memorial to a small boy who died too young.

In a historic steel foundry east of the Mississippi River, thousands of wooden crates hold the architectural remnants of buildings long gone but not forgotten.

A source of civic pride, though the reason for its construction is unknown.

Grand opera on a miniature scale.

Designed by Alfred Caldwel, this landscape showcases his vision of a native garden.

The last masonry skyscraper ever built reveals a transitional moment in architectural history.

A one-armed veteran of the Battle of Waterloo lies in a cemetery for one in the middle of a Chicago scrapyard.

Julia Buccola Petta's body was peculiarly well-preserved when it was exhumed six years after her death.

The murals have transformed a residential alley into a vibrant drive-through gallery.

The clothes-washing king doubles as a community center with some unusual features, including an aviary filled with finches.