Santa Monica, California
Chez Jay
A treasure hunter's tiny bar, harboring celebrities since 1959.
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Santa Monica, California
A treasure hunter's tiny bar, harboring celebrities since 1959.
Los Angeles, California
60 feet of towering steel balances gracefully.
Santa Monica, California
A second generation sun-powered marvel lights up the night.
Los Angeles, California
After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.
Fair Haven, Vermont
Two distinctive homes on a New England village green look like a couple of frosted wedding cakes.
Boston, Massachusetts
A mysterious stone embedded at the base of a historic Boston building.
Montague, Massachusetts
Books you don’t need in a place you can’t find.
Boston, Massachusetts
The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.
Lowell, Massachusetts
The Mysterious Witch Bonney, a haunted statue in an old industrial city.
Concord, Massachusetts
This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.
Sandwich, Massachusetts
35,000 grape hyacinths flow like water down a garden hill.
Boston, Massachusetts
Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.
Boston, Massachusetts
Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.
North Adams, Massachusetts
Naturally formed white marble arch housed in an abandoned marble quarry from the 1800s.
San Francisco, California
The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.
San Francisco, California
A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.
San Francisco, California
Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.
Medford, Massachusetts
The classic Christmas carol was written at this Massachusetts tavern in 1850.
Ellsworth, Maine
This architectural onion has an original 1930's Jerry O'Mahony dining car at its core.
Somerville, Massachusetts
Rising 30 feet in the air atop Quarry Hill, the Old Powder House is the oldest stone building in the state of Massachusetts.
Boston, Massachusetts
One of the now-less-hidden floral gems of the "Emerald Necklace."
Boston, Massachusetts
One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.
Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts
An old trolley bridge was converted into a breathtaking garden bursting with colorful flowers.
Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts
Over 50 whirling pools left behind from the glacial age.