This classic steam-powered train takes tourists on a nostalgic trip around the Connecticut River Valley.

British troops and Prohibition couldn’t stop this spot from becoming one of the United States' oldest continuously-run taverns.

This opera house along the banks of the Connecticut River has two Tony Awards to its credit but it’s never staged a single opera.

With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.

This 3,500 pound obelisk was constructed with more than 1,000 reclaimed guns.

Internationally-recognized arts center housed in a century-old former military barracks.

Recovered from the brink of extinction, at home in the Financial District.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

Authentic gondola hanging from the ceiling, notable mural in the back room.

The real faces of Venice beach captured on Romanesque columns.

The words of the neighborhood's most famous poets adorn four concrete walls.

The blinking light atop the iconic landmark has been sending secret messages for decades.

This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.

A three-story, three-dimensional hobo clown in a tutu welcomes CVS shoppers.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

A series of waterfalls and pools that flow through the 'Ohe'o Gulch and into the ocean.

Take shelter from Hawai'i's tropical heat under the massive canopy of largest Banyan tree on the island.

An exotic wildlife habitat right off The Strip.

One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.