This old-fashioned candy shop, ice cream parlor, and diner served as the setting for one of TV's most controversial series finales.

Pumpkin-like gargoyles and grotesques peer down from the rooftop of this unassuming apartment building in Illinois.

The famous author's birthplace is preserved in a town that he once described as narrow-minded.

Chicago was once a major hub of film production, but being silent film you don’t hear much about it.

In a quiet north Chicago neighborhood rests a stunning relic of the golden age of earthenware design.

Ironically this massive termite is the mascot for a company that is acclaimed for killing his kind.

An 80-year-old house built out of newspapers.

In 1958, an MIT fraternity pledge laid down on this bridge and instituted a new, unique unit of measurement.

A mysterious stone embedded at the base of a historic Boston building.

This nearly 200-year-old restaurant's history includes an exiled French prince, JFK, and a very hungry Daniel Webster.

A favorite of Amelia Earhart, ranking among those rare bridges that can be crossed without changing sides of the river.

A 98-room castle in the middle of Toronto that bankrupted a 19th century electricity multimillionaire.

Beer lover's can-covered house.

Need a hardcopy of the 50-title Code of Federal Regulations? This is the place.

A historic arena where the Beatles played their first concert in the U.S.

Art deco landmark on the outskirts of Washington, D.C.

Rabbit Hash is a heaping slice of Americana from another era, with a very peculiar origin behind its unusual name.

This cannon dating to 1755 has stood guard at this suburban intersection since 1915.

This restaurant has been a haven for D.C.'s LGBTQ community since the 1950s.

This imposing Masonic temple a mile from the White House was the first public library in Washington, D.C.

A rotating cast of guys and dolls in front of a Washington, D.C. building.

A building shaped like the Army Corps of Engineers logo, because why not?

Alleyway plaque commemorating the death of a fictional character in The Maltese Falcon, not far from the author's home.

These WWII-era murals were initially booed as a libelous portrayal of the American dream but have survived multiple attempts to have them destroyed.