In the middle of the desert, miles from any human life, sat an anomalous pay phone that still magically answers your calls.

An American city stranded at the tip of a Canadian peninsula where strict adherence to the "49th parallel rule" became problematic.

Thanks to both terrific preservation and historic vandalism this ancient site is known as the "Heart of Neolithic Orkney."

The Mighty Wurlitzer organ continues to belt out the tunes at downtown El Segundo's historic home for silent and classic movies.

The art and history of the velvet painting are on full display in this Los Angeles museum.

From Japan to Italy, this California park explores the world's cultures through their gardens.

Walk the same tracks that once ferried Gilded Age aristocrats to their vacation destinations.

Honoring the famed folktale author, this California museum looks like it belongs in the Black Forest.

This might just be the TARDIS of bookstores.

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.

This sandstone gorge in New York State's Adirondack Mountains is home to waterfalls, flumes, and more.

Entombed in this strange, white stone hill are the deadly remains of radioactive weapons production.

These cinderblock farmhouses were actually World War II radar stations in disguise.

Railways may have forged this quintet of lovely tunnels, but now they are open to hikers.

These locks on North America’s oldest canal are named after a porcine rock formation.

The world's longest covered bridge is a quaint and incredible wooden tunnel.

This lakeside tower is the third attempt at getting a tourist destination to stick on the spot.

This sprawling museum holds one man's giant collection of real tanks.

Tour the sci-fi-esque reality of governmental disease management.

This divisive system of turtle tunnels was built to save animals stranded after a highway split a lake in half.

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

This piece of peacetime naval wreckage memorializes the tragic sinking of the USS Maine--an event which sparked the Spanish-American war.

This massive World War II calculator hearkens back to the days when "computer" was a job title.