Places Edited by ambentzen

Washington's iconic carousel has a nice piece of Civil Rights history.

A tour de force of a fountain, memorializing a man who loved fountains more than anything else.

A tiny monument to the unsuccessful attempt by Thomas Jefferson to place the prime meridian in Washington.

This bug-eyed water wheel uses the power of the Sun to clean up Baltimore Harbor.

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

There's a 12-foot-tall replica of the Washington Monument hidden under a manhole nearby.

A blank headstone topped with a pile of pennies marks the final resting place of the infamous assassin.

A clone-tree in Washington Square Park sprung from seeds that went to the Moon and back.

Yo, Adrian!

This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.

The house where John Wilkes Booth conspired with his co-conspirators.

The last of Philadelphia's wood-paved streets is now a landmark of terrible engineering.

A monument in Washington D.C. marks the spot from which all other roads were supposed to stem.

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

Ant sculptures march up the side of what used to be an iconic spot in punk rock lore.

The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and one of the largest glass murals in the US.