These mushroom houses will win you over.

This is one of three National Register districts in the John Nolen Historic District of Venice—already a destination before the state’s 1920s boom, and before southwest Florida’s Gulf Coast had made it onto tourist maps.

Will Price et al. in Wayne, Penn.

“This neighborhood is such a treasure. The pioneers came to this isolated area, yet they survived and kept on building.” –Sharon Joseph

Turning onto Picardy Drive, East Oakland’s block-long enclave of 1920s Storybook houses, is like entering a fairytale.

Visit colonial-era homes in the Old South of Shepherdstown, West Virginia.

An authentic stone house vernacular is still strong at this community of new old houses in Pennsylvania.

This former mining town boasts an impressive array of Victorian finery.

Filled with old-timers and artists, The Marigny is a bohemian neighborhood against a backdrop of pastel Shotgun houses and colorful Creole cottages.

Discover a little slice of Europe tucked away on a hillside in Hollywood.

A pilgrimage to the historic and still-lovely Massachusetts town of Emerson, the Alcotts, Hawthorne, and Thoreau.

This idyllic town in northwest Connecticut boasts plenty of well-preserved old houses.

We unearth the old-house treasures of this genteel Southern city.