This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

The first public building in Savannah to offer air conditioning was a luxurious cinema that still operates today.

A statue honoring 44 continuous years of greeting passing ships.

This kitschy tavern is also home to rare early editions of "Treasure Island."

After just one epic test blast, this literal loose cannon proved too explosive for combat.

A white oak with property rights.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.

A technicolor place of worship for Elevationists.

The final resting place of a 19th-century gold prospector and convicted cannibal.

A collection of over 15,000 zines works to preserve DIY publishing culture.

The century-old bell and clock tower at UC Berkeley is the third-tallest in the world, and has fossils.

This subtle Berkeley paving stone actually marks off a lawless tube of air that extends into space.

A shape-shifting buy-sell-trade bookstore, born to Beatnik Era spirit.

The Flatiron Building's storied West Coast cousin is a lot more into religion.

A pier that used to act as a busy ferry dock is now a decaying favorite of local fisherman and urban artists.

The second building of its name to occupy this location might be the finest flatiron building in San Francisco.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

Millions of dollars worth of sculpture decorate this Iowa city center.

This zombie-themed restaurant stands out in the heart of corn country.

Lured here by the promise of tens of thousands in gold, Jesse James started a quintessentially American trend of robbing trains in-motion.

This seemingly charming home memorializes and honors the victims of a century-old unsolved murder.

Members of Congress have traveled between the buildings on Capitol Hill for a century hidden from tourists, press, and storm clouds.