The beloved statue at the National Academy of Sciences is oh so inviting to sit on.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

The only known Futuro house in North Carolina sits along a stretch of desolate highway on the Outer Banks.  .

This steep cable railway has been hoisting passengers in the heart of Québec City for over a century.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

Once America's tallest structure, now a Baltimore landmark.

The tallest The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints temple in the world soars above the Beltway.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

The only natural lake in the world that drains into both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

A diminutive memorial marks the site of a successful assassination by a right-wing death squad in America's capital.

Just outside of Nairobi lies a large estate surrounded by endangered Rothschild giraffes, who have been fed from the window by Mick Jagger and Walter Cronkite.

A remnant from the golden age of aviation still in use today, Pan Am's Clipper service took off from this Art Deco gem.

Restaurant in Northern Wisconsin comes with a unique feature: a grassy roof covered in living goats.

Four bald cypress trees in Lafayette Square, across from the White House, mark the southern edge of a 100,000 year old cypress swamp.

This university transit system is a 1970's vision of the future.

This pun was simply waiting to come to life, and one defense contractor made it so.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

At Washington's Dulles Airport is a satellite museum (no pun intended) with three quarters of a million square feet of aircraft history.

The first purpose-built art gallery in the United States is once again open as a center of craft arts.

A pre-Industrial Age iron furnace and the site of a nearly-forgotten piece of Black history.

These tourist trap caverns are said to be the former home of a legendary Pennsylvania Hermit.

Captain John Smith thought these cliffs were amazing in 1608 but sharks thought so 20 million years before him.

This grand gothic brewery has been pumping out suds for over a hundred years.