This mom-and-pop Japanese sweets shop has been serving cloud-light mochi for almost a century.

This museum of Hawaiian and Polynesian culture is the legacy of the last descendant of the Kamehameha Dynasty.

A unique collection of Western and Japanese-style graves.

A glass display case holds the document that ended the Second World War—which one person signed on the wrong line.

The air force base preserves its scars from the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

These gardens celebrate the biological and cultural diversity of the Hawai‘ian Islands.

Hidden behind a YMCA stands the remains of a ceremonial site that dates back hundreds of years, whose ground is still considered sacred to many Hawaiians.

This narrow coastline trail through the dense Kauai wilderness is among the most beautiful and dangerous in the world.

Submerged lava formations create incredible waterworks.

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

An oft-overlooked, magically musical monolith that stands majestically between Arlington Cemetery and the Iwo Jima Memorial.

An extensive, if one-sided, history of U.S. law enforcement's war on drugs.

This isn't your average roadway—it's actually a National Park and a transportation pioneer.

The romance of early commercial flight still fills this Art Deco destination.

Part of a WWII submarine is lurking outside the Washington Navy Yard parking lot.

The U.S. Navy’s preposterously detailed mini battleship took 77,000 hours to complete.

One of the largest artillery pieces in the world sits in a Washington D.C. parking lot.

Fittingly, America's museum of architecture is itself a magnificently designed old building.

An echo chamber with a waterfall wrapped around its base at the Embassy of Canada in Washington, D.C.

America's Most Wanted's set resides in this tribute to the history of crime and punishment.

The house where John Wilkes Booth conspired with his co-conspirators.

Coins and medals straight from the mint await visitors to this shop in the nation's capital.

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

Go take a picture with the inventor of the daguerreotype photographic process.