For roadside fast food, pull over at the giant orange.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

“It's the quality” (but probably also the drive-through donut tunnel) that has attracted diners since 1968.

Twin Peaks' real life Double R Diner has been restored to its damn fine television look.

The only house in Oregon designed by the famous architect, Frank Lloyd Wright.

Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

The mummified relics of an American missionary.

An old abandoned mining town in The Adirondacks where Theodore Roosevelt first learned of the shooting of President William McKinley.

A curious friendship between two inanimate ladies.

One of the last full-orchestra recording studios in New York City and an acoustical marvel.

A castle built for love, and abandoned due to heartbreak.

A posh members-only club with a literally dramatic history.

The world's largest kaleidoscope, designed by a 1960s psychedelic artist.

There must be a pun in this haystack somewhere...

The first "Hall of Fame" in America was designed by legendary Gilded Age architect Stanford White for what was then the NYU uptown campus.

An abandoned asylum once on the cutting edge of lobotomies may be reborn as a Christian college.

Join in a Seance at the Swedenborgian Church.

A massive forgotten storehouse from 1913 on the Brooklyn Waterfront has a spectacular view of Brooklyn.

Salute the leader of the proletariat.

Built hundreds of years ago this downtown iron barrier once protected a much despised king.

Hundreds of antique bank vault locks on display in New York City.

The notorious headquarters of a corrupt political machine.

This old cement mine has been used as everything from a mushroom farm to a recording studio.