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From sax to spuds, get 'em all at this landmark music establishment.

The oldest dim sum restaurant in the United States is a nostalgic jewel.

The largest whiskey stash on the West Coast survived the 1906 fires--but not without heroic effort.

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

The longest continuously operating Elk's Lodge in the country.

This museum promotes informed contraception by documenting its often secret past.

These relics of the city's past now exist as a prominent modern feature.

A non-stop elevator ride in Vienna's city hall.

A rare tour of a commercial jet assembly plant, held inside one of the largest buildings in the world.

Once a mortuary that held the remains of Buffalo Bill, this Denver hotspot is now a death-fixated restaurant.

A replica of the flagpole that gave a frontier town its name.

This 1930s log cabin began as a taxidermy museum but is now a popular country music venue.

Crafted in 1911, this steam locomotive spent its entire working life in Flagstaff.

This 24-acre park offers a place for meditation in the midst of Sedona's iconic red rocks.

The final resting place of the businessman-turned-astronomer who helped discover Pluto stands near his observatory.

This unassuming building produced some of the world's most famous bells.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

Bootleggers ran booze beneath this building before (and after) Route 66 appeared beside it.

This Arizona observatory is famous for investigations into Martian life, and as the place humans first spotted Pluto.

This once luxurious Catskills resort is now a haunting ruin.

This stave church nestled in the Catskills was built in the 1960s by a community of Ukrainian immigrants and refugees.

Fake subway tiles were installed to cover a design that resembled the Confederate flag—it's unclear if the resemblance was intentional.

The private island of Yale's elite Skull & Bones society is kind of a dump.

Nope, not Washington Irving's house.