This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

This opulent hotel has been visited by Spider-Man, Charlie's Angels, and the Ghostbusters.

Panorama exhibition hall in old silent theater with a beautiful backyard garden.

The pioneer of psychoanalysis spent the final year of his life here, still seeing patients on that famous couch.

Funded by John D. Rockefeller, this is one of the earliest, and most beautiful, shopping arcades in America.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

D.C.'s first central library was born out of a chance encounter with the philanthropist whose name it bears.

Largest Roman Catholic church in North America.

An Archaeological Wonder of Peru, and the largest stone ruin site in the New World.

One of the world's tallest waterfalls wasn't revealed to the world at large until 2006.

This beautifully deceptive waterfall is something far different from what it appears to be.

Legend has it that President Grant’s frequent drinking in the lobby gave rise to the term “lobbyist.”

Books you don’t need in a place you can’t find.

Members of Congress have traveled between the buildings on Capitol Hill for a century hidden from tourists, press, and storm clouds.

Largest collection of mounted dinosaur specimens in the world.

The extensive collection of an amateur naturalist.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.

The "Seinfeld" diner.

New York's oldest concrete structure is being preserved thanks to the gentrification of Whole Foods.

Michael Jackson got Bad and Crocodile Dundee walked on heads in this iconic Brooklyn subway station.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

The hill that gave the Massachusett tribe, and later the state, its name.

Descend 2,030 years into the past in an ancient tunnel built to support Jerusalem's most famous wall.