It's not your typical library, memorial, or book store.

The awe-inspiring ship from the golden era of cruising has an incomparable history and a reputation as one of the world’s most haunted places.

Oldest building in California still in use.

This star-studded Old Hollywood restaurant is where fettuccine Alfredo made its United States debut.

Life in this isolated, hilltop lighthouse was lonely, but it sure was lovely.

Acres of natural wonders left behind by a socialite-turned-gardener.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

The Kalamazoo factory has 100 years of instrument-making, and one big wartime secret.

The fifth-longest suspension bridge the world, connecting one Michigan peninsula to another.

A sealed test tube said to hold Thomas Edison's dying breath was given to the inventor's friend and mentee, Henry Ford.

The bones of an old zoo crumbling in the shadow of a new one.

The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.

A modern version of the stone cairns built by the Inuit.

Down the road from where the Wright brothers lifted off is another flight tribute practically hidden from sight in the woods.

Beautiful Gothic-inspired lighthouse stands out among the run-of-the-mill striped fare on Bodies Island.