Government

The winding route passes through an enclosed alleyway, two tunnels, and leads to the White House basement.

Conveniently located within binocular range of a nuclear bunker, the "summer camp" area was a painfully obvious spy house.

This unacceptably tall building was the real reason for Washington, D.C.'s skyscraper ban.

The Bong-area park police have asked visitors to please, stop stealing the signs.

The U.S. government built the million-pound stack of steel during the Space Race.

When it opened during the final years of the embargo, all the drinks and cigars were free.

Portland had a unique approach to Cold War-era protections.

The 5.5-mile ring of steel posts around the Capitol Building is one of the largest (and most uniform) of its kind in the world.

A hoard of sky catalogs, astrophysical journals, even the works of Galileo and Copernicus.

Abraham Lincoln's vice president took his last breath here on July 4, 1891.

The UK's largest private house was the subject of a long-lasting political dispute.

A legal loophole makes it possible to get away with murder within this 50-square-mile section of Yellowstone.

The Byzantine, pre-Columbian, and medieval art at this stately mansion are some of the most under-appreciated collections in D.C.

On the Fourth of July this area will transform into a Pompeii-like storm of falling embers and ash.

For over 100 years, this Indiana town has had a tree growing out the top of the local courthouse.

The walls of Germany's Parliament still show the scars of the Red Army takeover in World War II.

During Prohibition, the U.S. Congress had an "official" bootlegger, with his own Capitol Hill office.