One of the few working locomotive roundhouses in the United States.

A historic and oft-filmed prison stands in a Chicago suburb.

The world’s largest truck stop includes a barber shop, chiropractor, and a huge museum with antique trucks.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

A mysterious painting of the self-declared Emperor of the United States watches over a local hof-brau.

The massive, original Colgate Clock is mounted on a defunct factory building that was once a prison.

The first KFC is on the National Register of Historic Places.

While knives are the main feature in this store, visitors will also find dinosaur bones and meteorites.

This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.

The bad-ass ride of a soul legend, housed in one of the world's few soul museums.

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

These falls, sometimes called the "Niagara of the West," still put on a good show at the right time of year.

Where the famed daredevil attempted to launch himself across a canyon in a custom-built rocket.

The only bridge in the United States where BASE jumping is legal without a permit year-round.

Curiously, this large sporting goods store features 14 wax representations of American presidents.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

Beneath the southern end of the Golden Gate Bridge is the “Gibraltar of the West Coast,” a fort built to protect the San Francisco Bay from naval attack.

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

This infamous prison has a store where you can buy goods crafted by incarcerated people.

Where a staggering 747 ships were constructed during World War II.

An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

Antiques by the Bay.