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

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

Despite being one of the most photographed vistas in the Rockies these twin peaks are rightfully known as the "Deadly Bells."

Explore some of the most unique vehicles in history along with a cast of unsettling mannequins.

The remains of an early 1900s dude ranch that operated until the 1970s.

This sprawling mini-golf empire is an impressive testament to a disappearing attraction.

A real plaque marks the spot where a Faulknerian character committed fictional suicide.

Civil War-era Fort designed to withstand invasion and attack, with tricky traps called "murder holes."

Hidden behind a Target are pillows of cooled lava that formed at the bottom of a deep lake in the Mesozoic Era.

Final resting place of Typhoid Mary.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

To avoid the demolition costs this abandoned drawbridge was simply left in the up position.

Mass Grave of 48 colonists killed in a raid by Native Americans and the French in 1704.

The birth home of one of cinema's legendary actresses.

The strikingly modern structure stands out among the brick buildings speckling the Harvard Business School's campus.

The oldest surviving wood-frame building in North America is still in the family.

This rare symbol of Eastern philosophy in the West has been created over years of painstaking construction by the local community.

This nearly 200-year-old restaurant's history includes an exiled French prince, JFK, and a very hungry Daniel Webster.

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

Rumored to have tormented a family in the late 1960s, this toy now resides in a quiet little oddities shop.

A freighter full of exotic animals ends a harrowing voyage impaled on uncharted rocks in the Boston Harbor.