The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.

A small cemetery chapel designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and built in 1906.

The only fully-realized skyscraper built by the famed American architect, Frank Lloyd Wright.

The first integrated firehouse in Atlanta houses a museum on the history of desegregation in the city's fire department.

Classy up your Big Mac with bow-tied servers and chandeliers at the world's fanciest McDonald's.

The first "Hut" was actually a small brick building.

One of the last surviving C-97s sits in a field in front of a Wisconsin inn.

This giant iron playfully pays tribute to an early 20th-century architectural trend.

The fifth-longest suspension bridge the world, connecting one Michigan peninsula to another.

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

The first KFC is on the National Register of Historic Places.

It's not your typical library, memorial, or book store.

This otherworldly church spire reaches up toward the heavens.

Washington's iconic carousel has a nice piece of Civil Rights history.

The upstairs reading room is packed with millions of rare books, literary manuscripts, and historical treasures.

This supper-club-turned-concert-venue still serves drinks at its original rotating bar.

A bronze statue on a downtown corner honors Minneapolis's favorite career gal.

A Florida college boasts the world's largest single-site collection of structures designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

Behind a modern brick exterior lies the oldest continuously-operating lunch-car diner in the United States.

The only royal palace on U.S. soil has been a territorial capitol, a military headquarters, and a prison for a queen.

Once close to extinction, there is no shortage of elephant seals on the beaches of Año Nuevo State Park.

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

Statue dedicated to the star of an old television show.

You have to love a museum with a truly dedicated focus. A focus on Superman, for example.