The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."

Come for the gun-toting hillbilly madman, stay for the ice-cream loving basketball bears.

Herbert Hoover's "Brown House" rural presidential retreat was a PR disaster amid the start of the Great Depression.

The ruins of this Thomas-Jefferson-designed mansion have been left to crumble since the Christmas Day they burnt down.

The oldest continuously operating fish market in the United States.

This lovely pocket park is one of the most under appreciated in D.C.

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

The 72-foot giant escaped confinement in a large patch of mulch only to be reburied in the sandy shores of the Potomac River.

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

A bas relief commemorates the "Nuns of the Battlefield" who cared for soldiers on both sides of the conflict.

The grand marble structure next to the White House is Andrew Carnegie's temple to Pan-American diplomacy.

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

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

D.C. once had its own tiny rival to the New York Stock Exchange.

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

A much-maligned monument to teetotalism.

A muscular Art Deco monument represents the struggle between regulators and unbridled markets.

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

A hidden gem on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol Building designed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.

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

Railroad officials in the early 1900s sought to spare travelers the sight of Roman soldiers’ private parts.

This stretch of highway is said to be haunted by ghosts of settlers whose graves were paved over.

This "sausage route" features gorgeous views and family-owned restaurants.