Seattle, Washington
Psychic Chicken of Seattle
Deep into the lower floors of Pike Place, find a date with fowl fate.
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Seattle, Washington
Deep into the lower floors of Pike Place, find a date with fowl fate.
Seattle, Washington
This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.
Alexandria, Virginia
This stately building in Alexandria, Virginia was built by Freemasons to honor one of their most famous members.
Manassas, Virginia
Hear, smell, see, taste, and touch history at this immersive Civil War hospital.
Rockville, Maryland
The final resting place of the tragic king and queen of the Jazz Age is tucked away in a small Maryland graveyard.
Cabin John, Maryland
The bridge's highly-contested plaque (once again) honors Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
Chevy Chase, Maryland
The headquarters of the Audubon Naturalist Society is a small slice of heaven for nature lovers.
Arlington, Virginia
At 207 feet, one of the world's longest continuous escalators.
Arlington, Virginia
The rogue roots are gradually consuming some of the historic marble grave markers.
Arlington, Virginia
Born a slave on the Arlington estate, Parks dug the first graves at Arlington National Cemetery, and was buried there, too.
Washington, D.C.
A hoard of sky catalogs, astrophysical journals, even the works of Galileo and Copernicus.
Washington, D.C.
The most accurate timepiece in the world.
District of Columbia
The sci-fi villain is a little-known inhabitant of the U.S. capital's largest cathedral.
Washington, D.C.
The span is crooked and made from two older recycled bridges.
Washington, D.C.
Every drop of D.C. tap water flows through this old waterworks.
Bethesda, Maryland
Proto-CIA agents trained with grenades in the sand traps and fired machine guns from the fairways.
Herndon, Virginia
An out-of-place Air Force radar dome is all that denotes this park as a former missile launch site.
Leesburg, Virginia
The only U.S. Senator to die on the field of battle is buried in San Francisco but memorialized at Balls Bluff Regional Park.
Cooperstown, North Dakota
These former Cold War launch sites have been preserved for tourists to see where the button might have been pushed.
Mackinaw City, Michigan
A Northwoods sporting competition that shows lumber jacks doing much more than cutting down trees.
Vallejo, California
The former Naval shipyard is open for exploring - mostly.
Vallejo, California
The timepiece that exonerated a labor radical accused of a parade bombing that killed ten people.
Redding, California
This ultra-modern California span is actually a titanic solar clock in disguise built by famed architect Santiago Calatrava.
Austin, Texas
An 18-foot-tall troll sculpture, made from recycled wood and materials found in nature.