This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

A 21-foot-tall statue of a miner made of scrap metal stands in this West Virginia coal town.

This striking Victorian Home with its 113-foot turret is best known as the site where abolitionist John Brown was executed in 1859.

The "All-Seeing Eye of God" symbol on this library is a clue to one of the many former lives of this building.

In 1952, a strange encounter in the woods of West Virginia led to the legend of a 10-foot-tall monster with glowing eyes and a distinctive style.

In the mountains of West Virginia is this perfectly preserved Art Deco train station.

The site of the one and only battle of Lord Dunmore's War.

This rural community has attracted both scientists and techno-refugees due to its federally-mandated lack of technology.

The world's largest fully steerable radio telescope.

Home of a 28-foot tall stalagmite known as the War Club.

Take a steam-powered ride straight out of the past on this Appalachian rail line.

Beyond the usual stories that attend old prisons, this one has deep bloody undercurrents.

A pink and gray pair of pachyderms advertise a fireworks shop.

Hidden in this little-known town stands a piece of agriculture history.

A nearly century-old amusement park is quietly decaying in a riverside forest in South Carolina.

The oldest liquor store in the country is a model of resilience and mischief.

The outcropping is graffitied with the name of the beloved musical Muppet television series.

A partial tunnel blasted into a steep ridge is all that remains of a failed railway across Arizona.

Along the old Route 66 is an abandoned trading post made from old telephone poles, built by a former circus clown.

A mysterious "wedding cake" castle in the middle of the urban desert.

The location where the iconic movie character declared it was time to go home.

This lava formation earned its whimsical name from the log-like formation of it stones.

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

Eat burgers beneath gargantuan taxidermy and thousands of dollar bills in Utah's oldest continuously-operating bar.