Fittingly, America's museum of architecture is itself a magnificently designed old building.

The story of Two Guns, Arizona could easily be described as a Shakespearian tragedy on Route 66.

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

These towering spires and glowing walls are carefully crafted from hundreds of thousands of icicles.

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

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

A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.

Giant pinnacles in the sun-scorched lands of Southern Utah have been nicknamed "white ghosts."

Tour the world's largest deep-hole dimension granite quarry, where you can view the plant where gravestones are made and roll a ball down the outdoor granite bowling alley.

This grand mansion has starred in everything from Bones to Buffy.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.