One nutty businessman’s unique tribute to an ancient tool.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

Making Ice Cream Hip Since 2008.

Giant scissors seemingly stabbed into the side of a hair salon leave no question about the vocation of the owners.

A mysterious monument covered in a binary code marks the heart of tech.

Opened as part of the New Deal, the training facility now features World War II-era structures and a pylon that once stood at the World Trade Center.

This small oasis of flora and art was created in remembrance of a local auto business owner.

An old whaling station now serves to give the public a look at the commercial whaling industry, no longer a part of Monterey's economy.

The stone walls of a home built to withstand a California wildfire still stand after more than a century.

A lonely Gondola stuck on a traffic circle sits in a spot where it once would have floated down the Grand Canal.

Colorado Boulevard’s historic bookstore, operating since the bustling city of Pasadena was merely some orange groves and a few ostrich farms.

Inky sludge oozes to the surface of this beach thanks to a rare natural tar seep.

The blinking light atop the iconic landmark has been sending secret messages for decades.

Oakland's beautiful monumental cemetery.

Around half a million years ago, these magnificent columnar basalt cliffs were formed from cooling lava.

This subterranean oyster house has been the pearl of Grand Central Station since 1913.

This museum pays homage to a device that precipitated a watershed moment in Finger Lakes food production.

The poet's been ambling through these New York woods since 1940.

An experimental, community court opened in 2000 takes a new approach to youth offenders in south Brooklyn.

The place where Dvořák composed some of his most famous works.

West Point’s only monument to a woman veteran stands above an empty grave.

This magnificent herd of stampeding elephants has been frozen in time for over a century.

Tucked away amidst some of the most famous addresses in the world is New York's only fraction of a street.

Finally, you don't have to be a pious Swedish seaman to relax like one.