This magnificent herd of stampeding elephants has been frozen in time for over a century.

A jewel of early electric boosterism once again charms Connecticut's historic "Hat City."

Glacial erratic or man-made dolmen? It probably wasn't druids.

This abandoned cemetery is crumbling into ruin, exposing the artifacts and bodies buried there.

A miniature village lies nearly forgotten in the forest by the side of a major highway.

It looks like a whale, it's part of Yale, and it's best-known by a nickname you can probably work out for yourself.

The world's oldest continuously operating airport was founded by the Wright Brothers.

Politicians, bureaucrats, and military officers gathered in this field near the Capitol to settle their disputes with blood.

A benevolent, 16-foot-tall river dragon lives on a suburban lawn.

The rooster who crossed the road lives on forever in Takoma Park, Maryland.

An intricately designed junk art house with four extravagant junk art cars hidden in the suburbs.

A winding district gerrymandered into the shape of a mantis.

Electronic inventions that resulted in products and systems we use every day are on display in this labor-of-love museum.

Fascinating museum dedicated to the under-appreciated medical history of urology features some wince-inducing devices.

This stunning blue and gold room changed cities twice before becoming part of the Smithsonian.

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

A traveling postal dog covered 48 states and more than 140,000 miles, and he lives on as taxidermy, patched up with a rabbit's foot and a pig's ear.

Housing the National Women's Party since 1929, this historic house is now a monument to the fight for gender equality.

An easily overlooked memorial to a Ukrainian famine-genocide that killed over 4 million people.

The tunnel under the Capitol Building where Congress takes out its trash.

An unassuming, powerful monument north of the U.S. Capitol bears witness to the resilience of Japanese Americans during a time of grave injustice.

A 1,100-ton train fell through the floor in 1953. Workers got it patched up in just 72 hours.

The span is crooked and made from two older recycled bridges.

Before Metro, Washington had a robust streetcar network—and you see the remains of this infrastructure if you know where to look.