This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.

A giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.

Known as the "Hobbit Houses," these storybook homes look like they're straight out of the Shire.

This beloved, whimsical weiner topped an eclectic variety of Los Angeles buildings, including a Thai restaurant and an advertising agency.

Storybook cottage in Beverly Hills was once the site of 1920s silent film studio, affectionately known as "The Witch's House."

This ship-shape Streamline Moderne building was once the headquarters of a nautically inclined radio preacher.

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

The oldest continuously occupied public building in the United States.

The railroad turning train travel into a cinematic, highly immersive experience has a fascinating connection to Game of Thrones.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

This innocuous New Mexico storefront was once the secret jump-off spot for Manhattan Project scientists.

A small side chapel in Santa Fe's basilica is home to the oldest statute of the Virgin Mary in North America.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

Before online banking and smartphone apps, there was "commuter banking" in the subway in Downtown Brooklyn.

This metal eagle one of the final remnants of a newspaper that wanted to keep Brooklyn to Brooklyn.

A strip of modern stores in historic buildings.

One of the deadliest American air disasters is nearly forgotten in Brooklyn.

The flagship building of an early national restaurant chain is a superb example of terra cotta art.

A working monastery hidden away in Brooklyn once abutted the location of a former inebriate's home.

The gilded vestiges of a sterling department store can still be found in a Brooklyn shopping center.

A Red Hook dive bar that is holding onto its roots.

Richly symbolic public artworks that have been reconfigured for the 21st century.

The secret behind these nostalgic light fixtures: They're not as old as they may seem.

This 19th century wooden span is one of only four retractile bridges in the United States.