The Fox Sisters, America's leading mediums in the mid-19th century, possessed a table they claimed helped them "communicate" with the dead.

The mansion home of author Edith Wharton.

The remnants of a Gilded Age elegance preserved in the middle of a stark modern tower.

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

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

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

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

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

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

A sculpture of the famous photograph stands on San Diego's "Greatest Generation Walk."

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

The awe-inspiring ship from the golden era of cruising has an incomparable history and a reputation as one of the world’s most haunted places.

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

Megachurch turned Catholic church comprised of 10,000 glass panes.

A giant knight, sex education, date shakes, and Jesus coexist happily in this Coachella Valley desert oasis.

The bat-covered home of one of the world's most popular brands of rum is located on a tropical Art Deco campus.

These unusual rooms on wheels are holdovers from the 1960s.

The romance of early commercial flight still fills this Art Deco destination.

At Washington's Dulles Airport is a satellite museum (no pun intended) with three quarters of a million square feet of aircraft history.

A former major munitions plant that has been converted into a sprawling art space.

Thomas Jefferson's estate is home to hundreds of varieties of historic fruits and vegetables.

An extensive, if one-sided, history of U.S. law enforcement's war on drugs.

At 207 feet, one of the world's longest continuous escalators.