As telephones become more essential and less stylish one historic Brooklyn building remembers the days when they were a grand celebration of communication.

One of the first skyscrapers in Santa Monica, and a famous getaway for the Hollywood elite of then and now.

Legendary prop shop filled with one man's collection of scientific curiosities.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

An offbeat angle on the ocean viewed through an antiquated lens.

Perhaps the most unique of any Frank Gehry design for one simple reason: Gehry himself actually lives here.

A small section of Boise, Idaho maintains the unique culture and traditions of the Basque people.

Yo, Adrian!

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

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

One of the largest public housing complexes in New York once visited by Eleanor Roosevelt.

Queen Anne style apartment house built in 1886.

The factory that helped produce a dominant form of lighting before Thomas Edison.

A cruise terminal that changes the atmosphere of Red Hook's industrial waterfront.

Red Hook's massive public pool, built by Robert Moses.

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

A strip of modern stores in historic buildings.

Michael Jackson got Bad and Crocodile Dundee walked on heads in this iconic Brooklyn subway station.

The return of something once considered a basic part of life.

The longest continuous underwater road in North America was built at the insistence of Franklin Roosevelt.