Places grizloch Wants to Go

A clone of a cloned tree that was so important it allegedly had its own guards.

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

There's a crumbling old mansion inside the Smithsonian National Zoo.

This robust fence in front of a historic Georgetown home is likely made from hundreds of recycled Revolutionary War firearms.

A historic neighborhood church is reborn as a psychedelic arts collective.

An Industrial Revolution-era public work that purified water using nothing but sand.

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

The school tested mustard gas for the U.S. Army during World War I.

One of the dwarven trees dates back to 1625 and survived the Hiroshima bombing.

Where the U.S. government kept its actual treasure, before Fort Knox.

An atomic bomb-proof strongbox protects the U.S. Constitution from terrorists and thieves.

This leafy estate is worth $18 million and is so grand it has two mailing addresses.

A computer bug so primitive it was an actual insect.

This lonely waterfront memorial to the men of the Titanic was erected by the "Women of America."

Home to items never before seen by the public.

A historic arena where the Beatles played their first concert in the U.S.

Light bulbs, scrap wood, and tinfoil comprise this homemade throne of the gods.

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

The monument's pointy aluminum tip has been melted down by repeated lightning strikes.

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

This poor little statue is the most vandalized memorial in Washington.

You could be standing at the site of one of D.C.'s most fatal tragedies and not even know it.

A celebrity from the late Cretaceous period.

A brass plaque dedicated to a convicted cannibal hangs in the National Press Club, and that's not even the craziest part of the story.