This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

The only home that Alexander Hamilton ever owned has a history almost as troubled as his own.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

Hiding in plane sight.

An ode to one of the first concerts broadcast via satellite.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

A quiet Sicilian village is home to a cafe that had an important role in "The Godfather."

Edoras, capital city of Rohan in Lord of the Rings, once sat atop this isolated New Zealand mountain.

One of the oldest continually operating drinking establishments west of the Mississippi.

A celebration of capitalism in Midtown.

An abandoned bus station transformed into a museum dedicated to the history of Greyhound Lines, in the place where it all began.

Home to a vast collection of The Wizard of Oz memorabilia and the site of an infamous theft.

An eclectic restaurant serving from and to the nearby Chittenden Locks.

Keeping Ballard's heritage alive with delicious, lightly battered Alaskan wild cod.

Seattle's super-sized cowboy apparel once belonged to a themed gas station that wrangled in herds of tourists.

Feeding hungry Ballard boat workers since 1922.

A little piece of the Shire is hidden behind a plant nursery in Port Orchard, Washington.

A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.

This monument remembers the first Japanese Americans forcibly relocated during World War II.

This Cold War missile launch site has been abandoned for 40 years.