“Wagon Jobber" turned smokehouse magnate's family-owned business is still going strong 100 years later.

Piano-making empire filled with 200-year-old steam machines still churning out 1,000 instruments a year.

The oldest private residence in New York City.

This Orthodox Church's exterior is rather unorthodox.

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

A former seaside jewel built for the everyman is now simply a neglected art deco fortress.

The home of aviation trailblazers, in a remote corner of the big city.

One of the most enjoyable bits of history at Coney Island and “the most romantic ride in the world.”

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the "Golden Age" of the American automobile.

This constitutionally sound Muffler Man harkens back to the days these attractions were a must-see.

Sitting in the arguable birthplace of the Wild West, this museum holds the largest collection of bronco busting bric-a-brac in the world.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

Thousands of pieces of art have been carved into the rock at the site of an ancient volcanic eruption.

Despite time, colonization, and the brutal New Mexican heat, these Pueblo ruins still stand.

The ruins of this abandoned fort now stand as a picturesque reminder of America's march West.

The largest land animal skull ever discovered.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

Beneath the southern end of the Golden Gate Bridge is the “Gibraltar of the West Coast,” a fort built to protect the San Francisco Bay from naval attack.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

Housed in a memorial lighthouse, this museum relays the history of surfing, beginning with the antics of royal Hawaiian teenagers.

A massive volcanic plug is now a protected area that hosts a number of bird species.

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

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

Fake rail crossings mark the site of an influential doctor's demise.