An Italian restaurant became a rock-and-roll hangout and the lair of the "Hollywood vampires."

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

Seriously good slices of Sicilian pizza lurk at the back of the Bronx's oldest enclosed market.

If it feels like a speakeasy, that’s because it probably was one.

Come for the Italian food, stay for the taxidermy and giant statues.

One of the world's largest ice festivals dazzles visitors for over a month with radiant sculptures and carvings.

Mind-blowing carvings and fantasy ice scenes grace the largest year-round ice environment in the world.

This fantastical icy castle is built anew every winter.

The world's northernmost ice hotel.

The world's first ice hotel is still one of the most elaborate and beautiful.

These towering spires and glowing walls are carefully crafted from hundreds of thousands of icicles.

Each year, teams of the world's best snow sculptors have 65 hours to create frozen masterpieces.

This small town's local tradition is to create the world's tallest ice pillar.

This chilly Canadian hotel has a four-month lifespan due to the unusual material it's made of.

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.

The ruins of a 17th-century lodge on a grand estate are being slowly restored to their former glory.

This pair of centuries-old magnolia trees was once struck by a Babe Ruth home run.

This groundbreaking 16th-century map is known as "America's birth certificate."

This memorial commemorating fallen Swiss Guards of the French Revolution has been called the saddest stone in the world.

This sword isn't waiting for a king to pull it out. It was placed there by a saint.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

Where you can hail your favorite fictional commanders-in-chief.

According to folklore, Vermont's slanted windows were installed to keep witches from flying into the house.