This small-town library was the first in the world to be entirely supported by taxation.

The New England cabin where an infamous British occultist conducted experiments in "magick".

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

The building that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House."

The Vermont square that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery."

One man built this massive wall to keep his neighbor from complaining about working on Sundays.

According to legend, Bob Dylan sneaks in twice a year to eat dinner with Jack.

Every Saturday morning, this microbakery fills up with freshly baked pastries and sourdough breads.

This stained glass window designed by Tiffany Studios is hidden behind the circulation desk of a public library.

Malcolm X's house during his most formative years faces an uncertain future.

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

This electronics repair store celebrates the history of computers.

This upscale streetwear store is hidden behind a fake Snapple machine in the back of a deli.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

Eat like a "buckaroo" at this remote restaurant.

This small shack near the entrance to Sequoia National Park has been in almost continuous operation for the last century.

Check out a shovel along with your Shakespeare.

An homage to the man who built California's version of Venice.

Folk art crafted from discarded vegetable crates.