Los Angeles, California
‘Urban Light’
Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.
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Los Angeles, California
Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.
Brooklyn, New York
Come for the sustainable organic chocolate, stay for the sustainable organic booze.
Brooklyn, New York
Micro-distillery in Brooklyn produces New York’s first homemade rum since Prohibition.
New York, New York
This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.
New York, New York
Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.
New York, New York
The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.
New York, New York
The beautiful tunnel that ran from the lobby to Penn Station is still hidden underneath 34th Street.
Queens, New York
This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.
Bishop, California
The echoes of a railroad town that solemnly mark the end of the line.
Bishop, California
A charming desert roadside bakery that produces 10 times more bread daily than it has residents in its town.
Naval Air Station Point Mugu, California
A stranded woman lived alone on this remote island for 18 years, inspiring the great children's novel "Island of the Blue Dolphins."
Washington, D.C.
Look closely and you’ll notice that the color changes a third of the way up the tower.
McKittrick, California
Hidden in the back of a disused small town hotel is a dive bar shellacked with over a million pennies.
Santa Ynez, California
The abandoned personal amusement park of the King of Pop.
Los Angeles, California
From pre-war whiskey cocktails to prohibition-era speakeasy secrecy, this bar has seen it all.
New York, New York
One of the last Jazz Age "Wonder Theaters" in New York City.
Los Angeles, California
These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.
Banning, California
The biggest pinball arcade in the world has over 600 pinball machines, and 300 arcade machines.
San Simeon, California
The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.
New York, New York
During the holidays, a vintage subway train whisks New Yorkers back in time.
Irvine, California
One of the largest helium balloons in the U.S. is a 112-foot ginormous orange.
San Simeon, California
This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.
Los Angeles, California
This traditional garden in the San Fernando Valley doubled for Star Fleet Academy, and is irrigated entirely by wastewater.
Los Angeles, California
A faux European lane smack dab in downtown L.A.