This California family's ancestral melon is sold only here.

The unedited photograph called "Bliss" has graced the screens of over a billion computers.

The last of a gourmet supermarket chain, this store helped spark California's Food Revolution.

At this 1940s-era neighborhood favorite, you can still drink a cherry phosphate.

A tiny survivor of the Donner Party disaster.

A few iconic structures are all that remain of America’s first outdoor shopping mall.

The exterior of this home was used for the hit television show, The Brady Bunch.

The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.

The house where Good Will Hunting was written is a surreal fairytale abode.

Two men, two visionaries of Venice Beach, one little hotel that smells like cookies.

This forgotten Frank Lloyd Wright house is an architectural marvel at the end of a sleepy residential street.

Though tiki culture has gone in and out of fashion, the Tonga Hut has always been flying the flag in Los Angeles.

Hidden above a drug store on a nondescript corner of Lincoln Heights is a private clubhouse for intrepid explorers.

A faux European lane smack dab in downtown L.A.

A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.

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

A B.Y.O.B. Mexican cantina lives inside one of the last tortilla factories in Brooklyn.

This Dutch Colonial home is the oldest remaining farmhouse in Manhattan.

This lavish room at NYC's French Embassy is a rare relic from the end of the Gilded Age.

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

New York City's only preserved family home from the 19th century.

An annual extravaganza of Broadway theater memorabilia.

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

A charming "tea atelier" hidden away in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.