A giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.

The former home of the reclusive "Weird Wendels" who dominated New York real estate a century before Donald Trump.

The one-time epicenter of American songwriting is now a little remembered Manhattan commercial block.

The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.

The former sign of this immortal music venue is just that--undying.

The best way to get a sneak peek at the movies.

This pole near the infield rail at Belmont Park marks the jaw-dropping margin of Secretariat’s 1973 Belmont Stakes victory.

Featuring the the longest lift span of any vertical-lift bridge in the world.

A local farm's collection of unusual structures from a now defunct storybook amusement park.

Join in a Seance at the Swedenborgian Church.

In 2004, a Dave Matthews Band tour bus dumped 800 pounds of waste off a bridge and onto an unsuspecting tour boat below.

Parking lot where a Chicago mayor was inaugurated under very sketchy circumstances.

Theater has had many different incarnations but has survived the ravages of time.

Odd, decrepit fountain honors Chicago author who had mixed feelings about his hometown.

Despite its name, this fast food museum is actually a replica of the ninth McDonald's store.

The 80-foot tire that looms over Michigan's I-94 was once a Ferris wheel in the New York World Fair.

A waterway covered over after the Industrial Revolution has been unearthed and cleaned up, for the enjoyment of fish and humans alike.

An office built to look like a giant basket.

Infamous marsh filled with toxic waste, World War II-era London rubble, and dead mobsters galore.

San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

The real-life site of Ichabod Crane's infamous gourd attack.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

This Connecticut video store has a vast and varied archive that contains everything from 'Koyaanisqatsi' to 'The King's Speech.'