Local History

A former hardware store near Yerba Buena is the official home of California's history.

Hidden beneath a beautiful overlook you’ll find the history of the city depicted in comic strip format next to a pay toilet.

These 90-year-old murals of local kings, Vikings, and outlaws hide in plain sight in a beautifully baroque shopping arcade.

This iconic 1958 tower welcomes air travelers to Tucson with neon-lit letters and architectural style.

Talula the swan has been welcoming visitors to Elk Rapids, Michigan, for more than four decades.

Perched atop a brick smokestack, this enormous lug nut symbolizes the local minor league baseball team.

A menacing statue of this mythical creature can be seen at the legendary site of the monster's lair.

This huge repository of local history housed in an old J.C.Penney's is home to the largest model train set in Southeast Texas.

Packed with gear and memorabilia, this museum chronicles the history of skiing and how its rise shaped New England.

This stately clubhouse has showcased German-American culture for over a century.

This Art Deco theater is the last remaining opera house in the “little Broadway of the North.”

Rare remnants of the brick-domed ovens birthed in the Durham coalfield during the Industrial Revolution.

The Polish capital has had a deep connection to its guardian mermaid for almost a millennium now.

The words of the neighborhood's most famous poets adorn four concrete walls.

Hundreds of people walk past this palm tree every day without spotting its secret.

There is beauty and history in the ruins of this former company town.

Despite what scientists think, the town still says this is an extraterrestrial rock.

These two monoliths have stood at the entrance to the neighborhood since the days it was called "Hollywoodland."