First founded in 1472, this is the oldest bank in the world. Its history may explain why we call financial institutions "banks."

Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped.

The beautiful 1920 Pantages Theatre remains hidden just underneath the LA Downtown Jewelry Exchange.

The Pennsylvania landscape depicted by a quarter mile of mosaics made from used road signs.

This Art Deco service station has been providing tune-ups and turning heads for close to a century.

This titanic java kettle is one of the many kitschy landmarks located along America's OTHER famous highway.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

This Niagara Falls tourist trap is a world bright with neon and curiosities that will inspire love, hate, or a mixture of both.

Niagara Falls holds a special place in Nikola Tesla's history, so they put a statue on it.

This stunning blue and gold room changed cities twice before becoming part of the Smithsonian.

This illuminated sign was the first of its kind in Canada and remains a vestige of the Atomic Age.

This inexpensive lodging house was once a prison notorious for its inhumane practices.

The mastermind behind this palatial hotel perished on the Titanic weeks before its grand opening.

Montreal's colorful subway station shows its support of the local LGBT+ community.

Two thirds of this Montreal neon icon has survived to flash another day.

A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.

Opened in 1956, the first modern indoor shopping mall in the world was inspired by the shopping arcades found in European cities.

The only known Futuro house in North Carolina sits along a stretch of desolate highway on the Outer Banks.  .

The word "Watergate" will forever be associated with the infamous scandal in 1972, but this fountain is famous in its own right.

The beloved statue at the National Academy of Sciences is oh so inviting to sit on.

Decades before the scandal, this staircase on the river was a literal "water gate."

Those with a sharp eye can find the hidden image of a German Shepherd on the memorial's Mural Wall.

An overlooked memorial honoring the local Washington residents who died in World War I.

Look closely and you’ll notice that the color changes a third of the way up the tower.