Places ellenbwright Wants to Go

This unacceptably tall building was the real reason for Washington, D.C.'s skyscraper ban.

A historic estate packed with George Washington's heirlooms, and its own nuclear bunker.

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

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

A three-story tower of books about Abraham Lincoln is one of the more unusual monuments to the president.

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

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

Parking garage where Bob Woodward met Watergate source "Deep Throat."

At 207 feet, one of the world's longest continuous escalators.

During Prohibition, the U.S. Congress had an "official" bootlegger, with his own Capitol Hill office.

The remains of Martha, the last known passenger pigeon, serve as a tool to educate about conservation.

Perhaps the most scandalous statue of America's first president.

A heroic pigeon that, through a barrage of gunfire, delivered a message that saved over 100 lives in World War I.

The discovery site of the "Capitalsaurus," the official dinosaur of Washington, D.C.

An obscure public service from the U.S. government that redeems burnt, moldy, and soiled old greenbacks.

Born a slave on the Arlington estate, Parks dug the first graves at Arlington National Cemetery, and was buried there, too.

Government testing at the asylum briefly explored using marijuana as a "truth serum" on Nazi prisoners of war.

The remains of a historic plantation nestled in between a parking lot and the rental car return at Reagan National Airport.

The tomb was guarded by soldiers from both sides of the war, and some left their initials carved in the brick.

This little-known Revolutionary War fort is supposedly haunted by the ghosts of its past.

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

These tiny effigies are believed to represent victims of Edinburgh’s notorious Anatomy Murders.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.