Places fadranally Wants to Go

This quirky museum has a collection of more than 15,000 bobblehead dolls.

A place to eat for on-the-run agents and espionage enthusiasts.

Enjoy a brandy old fashioned with this petrified pet in a bar devoted to the local press.

Statue dedicated to the star of an old television show.

This striking art museum holds an amazing series of curiosity cabinets.

The bugs crawling down the front of this office building are almost as big as a '68 VW Beetle.

A giant, Gilded Age mansion that once belonged to the beer baron of Milwaukee.

This replica of an 8th century burial ship actually sailed to Norway before returning home to Minnesota.

In an alley behind a Fargo bar, you can roleplay as Mario while interacting with a popular street mural.

North Dakota's smallest store only has tiny items.

An ear-piercing buzzer calls lawmakers to a vote with a series of long and short rings to form coded messages.

A little marble compass above George Washington's (empty) tomb in the Capitol marks where D.C.'s four quadrants intersect.

Rumor has it the uncarved lump behind the three famous suffragists is reserved for the first woman president.

Corn-inthian columns with a uniquely American take on neoclassical architecture.

Senators used to relax in the nearly forgotten marble tubs now hidden in the U.S. Capitol Building's basement.

"Congress may voluntarily remain in session throughout the summer, in order that our Congressmen may be protected from the intolerable discomforts and dangers of the ordinary outdoor weather!”

One of the three perfect vellum copies of this historic book known to exist is on display in a specially-designed case.

There just so happens to be a court even higher than the U.S Supreme Court: a basketball court in the building itself.

The 5.5-mile ring of steel posts around the Capitol Building is one of the largest (and most uniform) of its kind in the world.

A fantastic array of trays and cables once whisked books over to the Capitol at 600 feet per minute.

This map, on display in the Library of Congress, and one of only seven known to exist, is the very first map of the United States.

This groundbreaking 16th-century map is known as "America's birth certificate."

The walls of the iconic dome are hollow and have a secret stairway.

This grand gothic brewery has been pumping out suds for over a hundred years.