The oldest building in the District of Columbia was preserved because of a mistaken connection to George Washington.

Legend has it that President Grant’s frequent drinking in the lobby gave rise to the term “lobbyist.”

The largest cemetery in the American Southeast is a hidden gem near the heart of Atlanta.

Just a few miles from downtown Atlanta is a trail covered in a crazy collection of outsider art.

This mysterious twin turboprop Grumman G-159 covered in graffiti has spent a decade and a half abandoned.

This abstract roadside poultry was saved from demolition by outraged drivers and pilots.

Georgia's highest point was given its strange name thanks to a simple translation error.

The ruins of a paper mill destroyed during the Civil War still tower over a tributary of the Chattahoochee River.

The ruins of a cotton mill that was burned in the Civil War are still hidden in a Georgia forest.

This former psychiatric hospital was once one of the largest in Australia.

This small-town pizzeria won the Hollywood lottery.

Holding multiple historical boats and an entire 19th century village, this New England attraction is the largest maritime museum in the world.

The once-abandoned 140-year-old hotel used in the movie "In Dreams."

Once the future of underwater combat, this old sub is now open for visitors to muck around in.

The world's oldest and largest museum of mass transit vehicles.

An unusually designed bridge from the 1920s was built to withstand the tides and winds of Maine.

When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.

This Art Deco fortress in upstate New York gives Manhattan's vaunted examples of the style a run for their money.

Alexander Milliner, a favorite of General Washington, is interred at Mt. Hope Cemetery along with 80 other Revolutionary War veterans.

A room hidden behind a swinging shelf in the children's section.