George visits New Jersey and Connecticut. He checks out the neon signs and doo-wop-inspired diners at Wildwood, and a broken-down zoo that's been brought back to life as a quirky hotel.

In Florida, George visits NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center, and discovers how storms created the opportunity to build over 800 Art Deco buildings in Miami

George's Americana odyssey takes him to California, where he visits a filmmaker's retreat turned into a hotel and a town that was once a cowboy film set, and walks in the footsteps of the Rat Pack

In the first episode, George travels 650 miles from New Orleans in Louisiana to the Deep South Cowboy Capital of the World in Bandera, Texas. He learns how waves of immigration from Europe over 300 years has shaped the distinctly different styles of architecture found across these two states.