An isolated island home to one of the oldest English-speaking communities in the region and Maryland's state dessert.

Affectionately known as "Lord Bot," this historic statue has a cult social media following and rightly claims to be “the most metal inhabitant of the Wren Yard.”

America's first public mental health facility.

A Manhattan office building is home to the world’s largest chess board.

New York City's first Modernist house.

These unusual rooms on wheels are holdovers from the 1960s.

This restaurant has been a haven for D.C.'s LGBTQ community since the 1950s.

An overlooked memorial honoring the local Washington residents who died in World War I.

The preamble to the U.S. Constitution written entirely from vanity license plates hangs in the Smithsonian museum.

This seemingly out-of-place gas station by the Watergate hotel was once described as the most expensive gas station in the world.

A museum cafe showcases Native American dishes and indigenous ingredients from across the Western Hemisphere.

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

Perhaps the most scandalous statue of America's first president.

D.C.'s first central library was born out of a chance encounter with the philanthropist whose name it bears.

The famous abolitionist’s preserved estate is one of Washington's finest monuments to its great Black citizens.

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

Long-abandoned trolley tunnels just a mile away from the White House are turning into an art space.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

An Olympic hero stripped of his medals is buried in a town he never visited, which took his name after his death.

These old doors are covered in the signatures of Rehoboth Beach artists dating back to the 1930s.

In the early 1800s, surgery was also a show.

A giant ball made from pieces of an old Jeep.

The residents of the Neighborhood of Make-Believe live without much fanfare within the Pittsburgh Children's Museum.

Found art has transformed this Pittsburgh neighborhood into a psychedelic dream.