This legendary dessert was served to Nobel laureates for decades.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

A ship that lived many lives under many names is now known merely as the "Ghost Ship."

Imagine having a street run right through your home, or better yet, a historic bridge three stories high.

A collection of colorful dinosaurs hidden in an actual rainforest.

The eccentric mansion of one the most popular horror authors of modern times.

The fanciest public restroom in New York City boasts fresh flowers, art, and a classical music soundtrack.

Behind a modern brick exterior lies the oldest continuously-operating lunch-car diner in the United States.

The remains of the iconic train crash from the movie The Fugitive can still be found rusting along the Great Smoky Railroad.

Massive prehistoric mammals used these stones as oversized scratching posts.

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

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.

Deceased nuns were placed on stone chairs to decompose, while the surviving nuns prayed near the lifeless bodies.

More gold than anywhere else, ever.

Where a railroad loops under or over itself to rise or drop more than 70 feet in a short distance.

The Route 66 institution that inspired Taco Bell also served as an important headquarters for Mexican-American social movements.

An overgrown and abandoned tuberculosis ward resides in the midst of a quaint modern neighborhood.

Nearly four centuries after its founding, remnants of one of the oldest planned communities in North America are still visible in southern Brooklyn.

The quiet canyon has a tumultuous history involving a doomsday cult.

The inventor of the Coney Island hot dog rests in a grand mausoleum in Brooklyn.

Parts of the civil rights movement unfolded in this historic eatery, helmed by the "Queen of Creole Cuisine."

An unassuming store hides relics of its former life as the jazz club that hosted some of the best black performers of the 1920s and '30s.

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

One of Detroit’s oldest blues clubs stands in defiance of the passage of time and the city’s shifting fortunes.