A nostalgic bibliographic gem.

When it opened during the final years of the embargo, all the drinks and cigars were free.

The winding route passes through an enclosed alleyway, two tunnels, and leads to the White House basement.

This church houses the “incorrupt” body of its founding Bishop.

This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the former home of the second Voodoo Queen of New Orleans.

A piece of Seattle’s historic Chinatown preserved inside a modern museum.

A collection of odd-shaped and quirky sounding instruments handmade by a midcentury inventor-composer.

This jazz venue welcomes performers nightly and students daily.

Feeding hungry Ballard boat workers since 1922.

Activists are fighting to preserve these unfinished highway ramps as a tribute to the citizen revolt that halted their construction decades ago.

What's that on the side of that building? Va Va Voom, it's Bettie!

An enclosed rotunda at the Henry Art Gallery in which viewers can look up and see the uninterrupted sky.

Though strikingly beautiful, Seattle's other railway station is now largely forgotten.

Old submarine parts have been converted into faux whale fins.

A huge musical sculpture and other art installations on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grounds.

This massive melon is a recreation of a similar gate from the Pan-American Expo.

This restored house is like a time capsule of the president's unconventional inauguration.

Buffalo's abandoned concrete grain elevators are getting a second life.

A 19th-century architectural wonder designed by the "father of the skyscraper."

The seat of Buffalo government is a gorgeous Art Deco palace.

A forsaken wonder in the middle of the East Side neighborhood.

Ruins of a once-prized railroad station in New York.

A beautifully designed asylum was resurrected as a hotel and art center with a ghost story or two.