A much-maligned monument to teetotalism.

This sandwich shop has a century-old elevator behind a sheet of plexiglass.

The first purpose-built art gallery in the United States is once again open as a center of craft arts.

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

One critic described it as "middle Mussolini, early Ramses, and late Neiman-Marcus." Another called it an architectural "natural disaster."

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

The national park was once a plantation estate.

A derelict bit of infrastructure from the canal that once ran through D.C. is landlocked in the heart of the city.

This former hub for crafty philosophers was founded by a writer who died aboard the infamous RMS Lusitania.

The sculptor was instructed to add “stallion attributes” to the general's bronze mare.

A hidden passageway now marks the site of an assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan that some say broke a 140-year-old curse.

This rare triple-jurisdiction drawbridge passes through Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C.

A double agent hid information for the Soviet Union beneath this bridge for more than 20 years.

The largest copper mine in Arizona, this enormous open pit emerges from the hills like an alien landscape.

The historic “pink house on the hill” is an architectural gem that now serves as a center for water conservation.

A museum preserving one company’s history of preserving food.

No one messes with the Massachusetts sacred cod, not this time...

This museum presents a dogged pursuit of 500 years of veterinary history.

Potato-peeling mannequins, Inca art, and a dangling tuber mobile help trace the history of fries at this Belgian museum.

One of the world’s largest collections of paper memorabilia chronicles 4,000 years of papermaking.

These official units of measurement—including chains and perches—lie hidden beneath tourists' feet in a popular London hub.

The powerful party began with a secret meeting in this shikumen in 1921.

These bronze sculptures sow whimsy by hamming it up on a pedestrian mall.

This institution celebrates the happy accidents of uncommon sticktoitiveness.