The monument's pointy aluminum tip has been melted down by repeated lightning strikes.

A 50-foot-tall replica of the infamous lamp from 'A Christmas Story' illuminates this small town.

One critic described it as "middle Mussolini, early Ramses, and late Neiman-Marcus." Another called it an architectural "natural disaster."

Live data is transmitted from the Atlantic coast to instantly recreate the ocean waves in this fountain at the NOAA headquarters.

The headquarters of the Audubon Naturalist Society is a small slice of heaven for nature lovers.

The wooded estate of the Forest Service employee responsible for D.C.’s cherry blossom trees.

These five Art Deco homes were meant to solve the "small house problem."

Hidden within an idyllic suburban garden is a memorial dedicated to the victims of a terrifying spree of killings committed on U.S. soil.

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

A 1920s speakeasy that had rum runners racing up and down the shores of California.

The most beautiful Taco Bell in the world even has surfboard parking.

The most accurate timepiece in the world.

This 18-foot-tall public art installation is another of sculptor Thomas Dambo's trolls.

This monument remembers the first Japanese Americans forcibly relocated during World War II.

Overlooking Puget Sound sits a garden with a Buddhist prayer wheel and an elaborate labyrinth.

The tech giant built three enormous glass orbs in Seattle so employees could work inside a rainforest greenhouse.

A community gathering place that once housed half-ton tanks and the World's Fair.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

This grand old 80-foot sequoia towers above the buildings in the city’s retail center.

Every drop of D.C. tap water flows through this old waterworks.

What if the Fountain of Youth was actually found in Delaware? One historic coastal town believes it to be true.

Once used as a deterrent to drinking alcohol.

Dedicated to the man who created the first radio wave communication system.