A terrace reminiscent of Rome's Spanish Steps is tucked away in a little park in Washington, D.C.

This three-story Victorian mansion is now home to the National Park Service’s Historic Preservation Training Center headquarters.

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

Learn about our ancestral eating habits at the passion project of an archeologist.

A small park honors the legendary Ukrainian poet.

The most magical part of this Latin American and Caribbean art museum is a room covered in beautiful blue tiles from floor to ceiling.

In 2004, a Dave Matthews Band tour bus dumped 800 pounds of waste off a bridge and onto an unsuspecting tour boat below.

This extensive display of bobbleheads is a tribute to one of the most unique pieces of sports memorabilia.

The real-life site of Ichabod Crane's infamous gourd attack.

This stunning Connecticut mansion is actually just a one-room-deep hoax.

The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.

The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin was neighbors with Mark Twain while living in this Connecticut home.

This Connecticut chapel is a starkly modern, and surprisingly colorful, architectural rebel.

An iconic steel and chrome diner from the 1940s left empty for nearly 20 years is in danger of being demolished.

As state highpoints go, this spot is one of the lowest, but for years it was also the hardest to climb.

A virtually untouched "home on the hill" for the flora and fauna of Rhode Island.

A gothic-styled structure that has been the location for several movies.

Ironically this massive termite is the mascot for a company that is acclaimed for killing his kind.

A giant green dragon crawls down from the roof of the Providence Children's Museum.

Final resting place of one of the classic authors of horror literature.

The vaguely man-shaped root that ate the body of the founder of Rhode Island.

The origin of these small islands' sweet names is a local mystery.

To avoid the demolition costs this abandoned drawbridge was simply left in the up position.

Books bound in human skin and H. P. Lovecraft's letters are among a few of the treasures this library has to offer.