Founded in 1961, this comic shop is said to be the oldest in the world.

Construction of Barcelona’s iconic (but controversial) church was finally completed in 2026—a century after the death of its architect.

The oldest surviving synagogue in New York City is now a soaring art space.

This 47-foot chile pepper sculpture welcomes Scoville heat unit obsessed tourists to the Big Chile Inn.

A local prank turned town icon.

Miniature art that tells an enormous story.

The world's oldest and largest museum of mass transit vehicles.

Vacant Beaux-Arts buildings that serve as reminders of a beach town’s glory days.

This lovely tree was a thank you gift from the man known as "Public Enemy No.1."

At this former Prohibition speakeasy, electric birds signaled the arrival of hooch.

A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.

Red sandstone structures dominate this landscape, which has been inhabited for some 5,000 years.

Colorful curls of hand-blown glass form a captivating tower in San Antonio's Central Library.

Two small markers remember the Alamo's feline protectors.

A unique botanical garden housed in three giant geodesic domes.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

The collection of signage remembers the midcentury pushback against the new neon light.

A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

The wooden octagon in which Huckleberry Finn and A Connecticut Yankee were born can still be visited in upstate New York.

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

The antique hotel still has a jail in the basement, though the cockfighting ring is long gone.

This beautiful stone arch bridge wasn't even expected to stand for one day, but people have been crossing it for centuries.