Estes Park, Colorado
Baldpate Inn Key Collection
The world's largest key collection features keys to the White House, Frankenstein's castle, and Hitler's bunker.
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Estes Park, Colorado
The world's largest key collection features keys to the White House, Frankenstein's castle, and Hitler's bunker.
San Francisco, California
This antique shop specializes in the history of print and design.
San Francisco, California
Longtime headquarters of controversial boys' club for the world's wealthiest and most powerful.
San Francisco, California
A library and museum dedicated to typography.
San Francisco, California
A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.
San Francisco, California
Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.
San Francisco, California
The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.
San Francisco, California
In this century-old literary safehouse, print is alive and well.
San Francisco, California
This shop and studio is dedicated to the art of the book, from letterpress to bookbinding.
San Francisco, California
The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.
Austin, Texas
A view-altering observatory at the University of Texas.
Culver City, California
A modern day curiosity cabinet.
Los Angeles, California
Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.
Malibu, California
A bomb shelter and some fireplaces are all that remain of the house Fred Roberts tried so hard to keep standing.
Roscoe, New York
An abandoned castle owned and ignored by Masons carries a cursed history.
Wexford, Pennsylvania
A stone arch leads to a cavernous 1930s spring house tucked away in the Pennsylvania woods.
Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York
A plaque on a rock dedicated to a famous, forgotten author, and put in an impossible place.
Cooperstown, New York
A sewing machine tycoon built this miniature castle for the people and to beautify a lakeshore.
Washington, D.C.
Fittingly, America's museum of architecture is itself a magnificently designed old building.
Kansas City, Missouri
A magnificent church designed by world-renowned architect, Frank Lloyd Wright.
Tomkins Cove, New York
The poet's been ambling through these New York woods since 1940.
Independence, Missouri
A remarkably opulent mansion with a tragic history.
Bonne Terre, Missouri
A museum dedicated to man's boldest venture.
Liberty, Missouri
The ruins of a 19th century shelter run by the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.