Before Nixon, "watergate" meant canals.

Look closely and you’ll notice that the color changes a third of the way up the tower.

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

The unique traffic pattern named for an influential urban planner is also known as the Pedestrian Scramble.

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

A haunting tribute to pioneering photographer Clover Adams.

The world's oldest soul food restaurant is also one of its best.

Sit where JFK proposed to Jackie or where Nixon dined on meatloaf at this storied pub.

This imposing Masonic temple a mile from the White House was the first public library in Washington, D.C.

Home to a vast and influential collection of Shakespeareana.

This lonely waterfront memorial to the men of the Titanic was erected by the "Women of America."

A hidden gem on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol Building designed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.

A monument in Washington D.C. marks the spot from which all other roads were supposed to stem.

A historic and beautiful Art Nouveau chamber in a historic railway station.

A quasi-futuristic roof sits atop a medieval Bohemian monastery damaged during World War II.

Local folklore claims that this wall was not built for defense, but to provide labor during a time of famine.

A Baroque mansion with ties to legendary magicians and alchemists.

Throughout this shopping mall are medieval ruins that were discovered during the mall's construction.

Straight out of a nightmare, barcode-faced babies climb up and down Prague's television tower.

A former squatter's paradise outside Prague.

A surreal statue honoring Prague's favorite literary son.

Monument to a suicide protesting the Soviet invasion.

The slender brass strip in Prague's Old Town Square was used to tell time from 1652 to 1918.

Increasingly decayed figures stand as a powerful reminder of the human costs of Czech Communism.