A four paneled, brightly multicolored mosaic adorns the side of this popular grocery store.

The United States' first transcontinental automobile road came to its end at this spot in San Francisco's Lincoln Park.

The legendary statue-hating superintendent of Golden Gate Park is honored with... a statue.

A former hardware store near Yerba Buena is the official home of California's history.

This museum explores the history of the book, from scrolls to mass-produced objects through tools, stories, and massive cast-iron binding machinery (some of it operational).

Fonts are born and bred here at the oldest letterpress type foundry in the United States.

A wonderful display of arts and crafts handmade by local artisans in the Southern Appalachians.

The U.S. Supreme Court's secret Cold War relocation facility in the mountains of North Carolina.

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

The world's largest wooden trestle stretches across this desert canyon in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.

What may be Boston's finest Art Deco building, located in the city's Financial District.

A nearly 100-year-old dining car in upstate New York embodies the golden age of roadside dining.

One of the most acclaimed eateries in Arkansas is a two-table diner on the ground floor of a family home.

The internal railway of one of the biggest steel plants in America has been transformed into a linear park with unique industrial views.

This extraordinary Depression-era expenditure was modeled after a postcard of a Mediterranean hotel.

This historic mini-suspension bridge was swept away once but is now here to stay.

L.A.'s oldest operating bowling alley is a beautifully restored homage to its speakeasy days.

The set location for a 1987 cult classic draws international film buffs to the middle of the Mojave Desert.

A wealth of pop culture statuary and green chile dishes give this roadside restaurant clout.

The first rural cemetery west of the Mississippi is home to the elaborate tombs of St. Louis' local beer barons.

An office built to look like a giant basket.

Step inside Lucy, the world's largest "elephant."

America's post-nuclear-attack chambers of Congress.

One of the final grand railway depot hotel complexes is slowly being restored to its former glory.